Love Songs From a Shallow Grave

"I celebrate the dawn of my 74th birthday handcuffed to a lead pipe."  That's not how Dr. Siri Paiboun had planned to spend this day, and it makes for an unsettling start to Love Songs from a Shallow Grave, Colin Cotterill's seventh mystery novel starring Siri, the national coroner of the People's Democratic Republic of Laos. (Every book in the series takes place in that country in the mid- to late 1970s.) The spirited septuagenarian has been in plenty of dicey situations before, but this is the first time we've heard him express such intense regret. Who is holding Siri, and why? … Back to Article