Colin Cotterill: The Merry Misogynist (USA 2009)

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When the corpse of a rural beauty turns up in Dr. Siri's morgue, his curiosity is piqued. The victim was tied to a tree and strangled, but she had not, as the doctor had expected, been raped. On a trip to the hinterlands, Siri learns that many women have been killed this way, and he soon discovers that not only pretty maidens are at risk. Seventy-three-year-old coroners can be victims, too.

Colin Cotterill: The Merry Misogynist. A Dr. Siri Paiboun Investigation Set in Laos. Soho, ISBN: 9781569476543 (August, 2010), 274 p., $13.00.

Colin Cotterill: The Merry Misogynist (UK 2010)

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Falling in love can be the death of you, And for some young girls in Dr Sir's neck of the woods, it actually is. Some unscrupulous soul is wooing, marrying and murdering them on their wedding nights. Siri and his team are determined to discover who and why.

When a local madman disappears, their troubles multiply. How do you trace an itinerant mute? Everyone has a theory, but it's up to siri to figure out where he could be, and it's going to take him to the most unlikely place of all.

Colin Cotterill: The Merry Misogynist. A Dr Siri Mystery. Quercus, ISBN: 9781849161961 (April, 2010), 263 p., £7.99.

Colin Cotterill: The Merry Misogynist (UK 2009)

From the Publisher:
Somebody in Laos is wooing and wedding country girls - and then killing them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to trees. The horror of what this monster does to his victims leaves a bad taste in the mouths of Chief Coroner Dr Siri and his morgue team. Not ones to stand around tutting, they vow immediate revenge.

But before they can realise their plans, they are distracted by the disappearance of local madman Crazy Rajid. But how do you begin to trace an itinerant mute? A trail of elaborate clues and remarkable disclosures about Rajid's past lead them. to Vientiane's most ancient temple - and to a terrible discovery.

With the reappearance of Dr Sirl's four-legged sidekick Saloop, you have to ask, does this series just keep getting better or what?

Colin Cotterill: The Merry Misogynist. A Dr Siri Investigation. Quercus, ISBN: 9781849160087 (November, 2009), 272 p., £14.99.

Colin Cotterill: The Merry Misogynist (USA 2009)

From the Publisher:
Dr. Siri is confronted with a deadly Casanova targeting lovely young women.
In poverty-stricken 1978 Laos, a man with a truck from the city was "somebody," a catch for even the prettiest village virgin. The corpse of one of these bucolic beauties turns up in Dr. Siri's morgue and his curiosity is piqued. The victim was tied to a tree and strangled but she had not, as the doctor had expected, been raped, although her flesh had been torn. And though the victim had clear, pale skin over most of her body, her hands and feet were gnarled, callused, and blistered.

On a trip to the hinterlands, Siri discovers that the beautiful female corpse bound to a tree has already risen to the status of a rural myth. This has happened many times before. He sets out to investigate this unprecedented phenomenon -- a serial killer in peaceful Buddhist Laos -- only to discover when he has identified the murderer that not only pretty maidens are at risk. Seventy-three-year-old coroners can be victims, too.

Colin Cotterill: The Merry Misogynist. A Dr. Siri Paiboun Investigation Set in Laos. Soho, ISBN: 9781569475560 (August, 2009), 274 p., $24.00.