By: Colin Cotterill
Genre: Mystery
Soho Crime
February 1, 2013
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Featuring: Dr. Siri Paiboun
307 pages
ISBN: 1616952067
EAN: 9781616952068
Kindle: B008C951AU
Hardcover / e-Book
Book Summary
The long-awaited follow-up to 2011's Slash &
Burn.
In a small Lao village, a very
strange thing has happened. A woman was shot and killed in
her bed during a burglary; she was given a funeral and
everyone in the village saw her body burned. Then, three
days later, she was back in her house as if she'd never been
dead at all. But now she's clairvoyant, and can speak to the
dead. That's 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 many
years.
Lao national coroner Dr. Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, are sent along to supervise the excavation. It could be a kind of relaxing vacation for them, maybe, except Siri is obsessed with the pretty undead medium's special abilities, and Madame Daeng might be a little jealous. She doesn't trust the woman for some reason─is her hunch right? What is the group really digging for at the bottom of this remote river on the Thai border? What war secrets are being covered up?