Thirty-Three Teeth (original 2005; edition 2011)

Enjoyed this as much as the first book. I thought I had figured out the solution to the mystery, but at the end I was off. I really liked the supernatural aspect of the mystery - it wasn't too 'ghost/zombie' to turn me off, but it was different enough to make me take it seriously in a spiritual context

Library discard. 1 of 12 for $6. Mine = different ed & cover.

Auf jeden Fall ein grosses dickes Dankeschön für denjenigen der es möglich gemacht hat, dass dieses Buch auf Deutsch erscheinen ist.
Laos in den siebzigern, von den Kommunisten überrannt, von den NVietnamesen beschlagnahmt und mittendrin ein kleiner Arzt, deer Pathologe sein soll - anweisung von oben. Der aber nicht nur Arzt ist mit einem phantastischen Team - einer Krankenschwester und Herrn Geung mit einen Anflug von Down-Syndrom, aber bestausgebildeter Pathologieassistent in Laos. Nein Dr. Siri hat auch noc eine spirituelle Ader die er aber erst entdecken muss. Der Leser entdeckt Laos in den Siebziger die Zeit der kommunistischen Herrschaft und und.
Ein absoluter Lesespass. Mehr! ( )

What great fun this book is. Cotterill does a fabulous job of weaving the traditional spirit world in with the new secular world created by the Communist. I particularly enjoyed the family the recurring characters have created for themselves. ( )

This book was fun. It is part of the Dr. Siri Paiboun series. He is the only coroner in the Socialist Republic of Laos. He also carries the sprirt of Yeh Ming a shaman who is one thousand years old. As the coroner he gets involved in a lot of murder mysteries and sometimes he uses the powers from Yeh Ming to help solve them. In this book he discovers that he has thirty-three teeth just as The Buddha had.
The setting provides a lot of the fun in the book. Laos is a very old country and the people have learned not to take life too seriously. The common greeting when people meet in this story is "It's hot, Damned hot." It hasn't rained in a long time. People don't gripe about global warming. They just fan themselves and say," It's hot." There is plenty of tropical scenery and old French colonial buildings. The only people who aren't fun are the cadres who take themselves too seriously.
There are several mysteries in the book. The most serious involves people who are found murdered by a wild animal. Dtui, the nurse at the morgue, finds out that a Malay brown bear has escaped from a cage. She tells the police that the bear is probably the killer. Then she finds out the bear couldn't have been the killer and feels very bad that she may be the cause of the bear's death. She goes on a hunt to find the killer in order to save the bear. The problem is that she finds the killer and gets herself in a real bad situation. Dr. Siri goes to save her. I won't be a spoiler but the story goes from fun to suspense and danger.
There is an interesting story in the book that begins with a murder and ends with the discovery of the royal puppets. All through the book a mixture of murders and the light side of life.
This is the second Dr. Siri book I have read. They have an interesting mixture of murder and the occult. The more I get to know the characters the more I enjoy spending time with them. Nice people, mostly, good entertainment with a nice mixture of mystery and suspense. ( )