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Zusatztext The story is good! the characters interesting! the hero delightful and the setting fascinating: a find - Literary Review Informationen zum Autor Colin Cotterill was born in London. He has taught in Australia, the USA 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 Chiang Mai, Thailand. Klappentext Dr Siri Paiboun! Laos" reluctant national coroner! confused psychic! and disheartened communist gets on down with a third installment of the wittiest and most inventive crime series in print. Dr Siri! 73 but still as sturdy as a jungle boar! is summoned to the mountains of Huaphan Province! where for years the leaders of the new communist government hid in caves! waiting to assume power. On the eve of a major celebration of their glorious new regime! an arm is found protruding from the concrete walk laid from the President's former cave hideout to his new house. Zusammenfassung Reluctant coroner to the Lao People's Democratic Republic! Dr Siri Paiboun has been despatched to the country's mountainous north where the sudden appearance of a mummified arm protruding from a concrete path laid in front of the President's new mansion has caused an understandable degree of embarrassment
