Waterstones Love Songs from a Shallow Grave
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Description: As usual, all is abnormal in Dr Siri Paiboun's morgue in downtown Vientiane. Siri and his team are investigating the case of the Three Epees: three women skewered by a sword through their hearts. A culprit has been apprehended, tried and sentenced to death in a week's time. But Siri isn't sure they have the right man. Unfortunately, the number one, and only, coroner of Laos isn't in a position to help anyone - not even himself. As his 74th birthday dawns, Siri finds himself incarcerated in prison by the Khymer Rouge, facing torture and starvation. As usual, his curiosity is to blame for his predicament, but this time it looks as though his inquisitiveness could be the end of him. Could Dr Siri's next outing be from beyond the grave?. Waterstones Love Songs from a Shallow Grave - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9781849160476
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ISBN: 9781849160476
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Author: Noel
Rating: 5
Review: I received the first book in this series as a Christmas present and have bought and read each of them in order. This is number 7, the number of completeness. I tried not to read too much into that but could it be the end of Siri. This is a very entertaining series written with great affection for 1970's Laos soon after the civil war and the communist takeover. Despite the privations there is still a sense of fun in the morgue presided over by Dr Siri - unlikely as it may seem. They are books which make me smile as I read but this one was different. There is a dark side to this one, a very dark side and it is in that darkness that the story begins, Dr Siri in a torture cell. The narrative then alternates between the main story of an epee' serial killer on the loose in the former American enclave in Vientiane; and Dr Siri relating what is happening to him as an 'honoured guest' of the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. There is a stark contrast between these two 'worlds' and the use of an italics typeface for Siri's personal account emphasises that contrast. What happened in Laos in the 1970's never made news headlines in the UK but what happened in the Cambodian killing fields did. It is almost as if reality has stomped into the surreal world of Dr Siri. I hated to turn a page and seeing that the next page was in italics, so much so that I during the couple of days that it took me to read the book I never interrupted my reading at the end of a section in italics. I had to read the next chapter to lighten the mood. In the hands of a less skilfull author this could have been a very bad book of ill-fitting parts. But it's not it is an excellent and witty tale of detection in Laos assiduously tempered by the ghastly record of horror in Cambodia and how Siri's investigative instinct brought him to such grim circumstances. A really good story, well told. As for the number of perfection, wait and see.
Author: Amazon Customer
Rating: 2
Review: An error by the publisher. It says one thing on the cover, but inside its actually 'The Woman Who Wouldn't Die'. It's a bit disappointing, as I've read the first six books in the series. However, I'm NOT blaming the seller ...as it isn't unreasonable on their part, to expect it to be what it says on the cover. It just means I've got books 1 to 6, plus 8 & 9 (but no No.7).