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I Shot the Buddha

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Written by Colin Cotterill — Dr Siri Paiboun is a recently retired coroner in 1970s Laos. He lives with his wife Madame Daeng, the proprietress of the local noodle shop, and we’ve met them before in Six and a Half Deadly Sins and The Woman Who Wouldn’t…
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Six and a Half Deadly Sins

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Written by Colin Cotterill — It’s the late 1970s in Laos, and Dr Siri Paiboun, retired coroner for the Laotian Communist Party, drags himself once again out of retirement to solve a mystery. It all starts when Siri receives in the mail an elaborately embroidered…
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Jeremy Megraw: Top five books of 2013

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OK, so you’ve decided to give the gift of crime this holiday. Blood-splattered wrapping paper, check. Crime scene tape ribbon, check. All that’s lacking is a choice selection of books that your noir-loving loved one can hunker down with for a good holiday read. Well,…
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The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die

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Written by Colin Cotterill — The setting is Vientiane, Laos in the late 1970s. The country’s only coroner, Dr Siri Paiboun, now retired, is recalled to oversee the search for the body of the brother of a high-ranking minister. This was initiated when the corpse’s location…
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What's another dead journalist?

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On the Radar — It’s 3 January, a big day for new releases, and if you head to our Reviews section you can catch up on titles from Stuart Neville, Kathy and Brendan Reichs and KN Shields, and many more titles are out today. But January has…
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