Books by Colin Cotterill

In the fifth instalment of the delightful Dr Siri series, Laos' reluctant chief coroner is kidnapped, while his colleagues contend with exploding corpses back at the morgue.

Between getting into a tangle with a corrupt local judge, and discovering a disturbing black-market business, Dr. Siri and Inspector Phosy have their hands full in the thirteenth installment of Colin Cotterill's quirky, critically acclaimed series.Dr. Siri Paiboun, the 75-year-old ex-national coroner of Laos, may have more experience dissecting bodies than making art, but now that he's managed to smuggle a fancy movie camera into the country, he devises a plan to shoot a Lao adaptation of War and Peace with his friend Civilai. The only problem? The Ministry of Culture must approve the script before they can get rolling. That, and they can't figure out how to turn on the camera.Meanwhile, the skeleton of a woman has appeared under the Anusawari Arch in the middle of the night. Siri puts his directorial debut on hold and assists his friend Phosy, the newly promoted Senior Police Inspector, with the ensuing investigation. Though the death of the unknown woman seems to be recent, the flesh on her corpse has been picked off in places as if somethingor someonehas been gnawing on the bones. The plot Siri and his friends uncover involves much more than a single set of skeletal remains.

The next instalment in Cotterill's acclaimed crime series set in Thailand, featuring reporter Jimm Juree.

The next instalment in Cotterill's prize-winning Dr Siri series: Siri's wife, Madame Daeng, is in grave danger...

What do you do when you find a severed head on the beach? With her former cop grandfather as back-up, crime reporter Jimm Juree sets out to discover how the poor fellow got there. Yet the authorities show no interest at all...

Laos' reluctant national coroner, confused psychic, and disheartened communist returns for a second case, employing his forensic skills and spiritual acumen to solve a series of bizarre killings.

Few, if any, characters in modern crime fiction can match the benign humour, the gentle wisdom or the sheer bloody-mindedness of Dr Siri Paiboun, septuagenarian chief coroner to the newly independent communist state of Laos.

Dr Siri comes face to face with a serial killer who is as seductive as he is psychopathic.

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

Dr Siri Paiboun, Laos' reluctant national coroner, confused psychic, and disheartened communist disproves an old adage and discovers some new tricks, and a plot to overthrow the government.

As usual, all is abnormal in Dr Siri Paiboun's morgue in downtown Vientiane. Siri and his team are investigating the case three women skewered by a sword through their hearts. A culprit has been apprehended, tried and sentenced to death in a week's time. But Siri isn't sure they have the right man.