JANUARY 1, 2014
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THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN’T DIE The Dr. Siri Investigations, Book # 9 By Colin Cotterill Read by Clive Chafer
The long-awaited follow-up to 2011’s Slash and Burn and the ninth installment in Colin Cotterill’s bestselling mystery series starring the inimitable Lao national coroner, Dr. Siri
“Laughter is a subversive weapon when you live under a repressive regime. That’s the take-away lesson from Colin Cotterill’s
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gravely funny novels set in Indochina in the 1970s.”
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Historical
—New York Times Book Review
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In a Lao village, a woman is killed during a burglary; she is given a funeral and everyone in the village sees her body burned. But three days later she is back in her house as if she never died—and now she can speak to the dead. That’s
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why the long-dead brother of a Lao general has enlisted her to help his brother uncover his remains, which have been lost at the bottom of a river for years. Lao national coroner Dr. Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, are sent to
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supervise the excavation. Siri becomes obsessed with the
Setting: Laos
pretty medium’s abilities, but Madame Daeng doesn’t trust
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the woman. Is her hunch right? What is the group really digging for?
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CO L I N COT T E R I L L was born in London. He has taught in Australia, the United States, and Japan and lived for many years in Laos where he worked for nongovernmental social-service organizations. He now writes full time and lives in Thailand. His books have been Book Sense Picks, and he has won the Dilys Award and the Crime Writers’ Association Library Dagger Award.
MARKETING With worldwide critical acclaim, Cotterill is one of the most highly regarded “cult favorite” crime writers today This is one of Soho Crime’s all-time bestselling series, always widely and well-reviewed Full of dark comedy, offbeat characters, and poignant depiction of Laos at a moment of political upheaval Will appeal to fans of Peter Lovesey’s Peter Diamond mysteries and Stuart Neville’s The Ghosts of Belfast Author website: ColinCotterill.com Also available at Blackstone Audio: The Dr. Siri Investigations, books one through eight 105