by Colin Cotterill
This is the first book about a 70+ year old coroner in Laos, who becomes an amateur sleuth. The story is quite funny. The book makes fun of the communist government and officials in Laos. The coroner has a two helpers, a young nurse who longs to be his apprentice and a young boy who has Downs Syndrome. He also has a croney he consults with.
The story describes how he goes from being a bored, reluctant coroner who longs to retire but who keeps getting reminded that in a communist country there is no retirement. It shows how he works his way around the administration, avoiding what he doesn't want to to and getting what he wants in the end.
It was an entertaining read, very interesting because of the exotic local. I would certainly read other books in this series.
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