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The Second Biggest Nothing
| Author: | Colin Cotterill |
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Soho Press, 2019 |
| Series: | Dr Siri Paiboun: Book 14 |
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1. The Coroner's Lunch |
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| Book Type: | Novel |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Vientiane, 1980: For a man of his age and in his corner of the world, Dr Siri, the 76-year-old former national coroner of Laos, is doing remarkably well--especially for someone possessed by a thousand-year-old Hmong shaman. That is, until he finds a mysterious note tied to his dog, Ugly's, tail: a death threat not just to him, but to everyone he holds dear. And whoever wrote the note claims the job will be executed in two weeks.
Thus, at the urging of his wife and his motley crew of faithful friends, Dr Siri contemplates who would hold such a strong grudge as to wish him dead, prompting him to recount three incidents over the years: an early meeting with his lifelong pal Civilai in Paris in the early '30s, a particularly disruptive visit to an art museum in Saigon in 1956, and a prisoner of war negotiation in Hanoi at the height of the Vietnam War in the '70s. There will be grave consequences in the present if Dr Siri can't put together the clues in the past.
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