The Rat Catchers' Olympics: A Dr. Siri Paiboun Mystery #12

ISBN-13: 9781616959494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str.

Colin Cotterill

Opis

1980: Die Demokratische Volksrepublik Laos ist stolz darauf, an ihren ersten Olympischen Spielen teilzunehmen - ein Event, das sich der Pathologe Dr. Siri Paiboun natürlich nicht entgehen lassen kann. Mithilfe eines kleinen Tricks schafft er es, als medizinischer Berater für die Athleten nach Moskau reisen zu dürfen, dem Austragungsort der diesjährigen Spiele. Doch dort angekommen beschleicht ihn schnell der Verdacht, dass einer der Olympiateilnehmer nicht der ist, der er zu sein vorgibt. Und als dann auch noch ein laotischer Athlet des Mordes beschuldigt wird, muss Siri alles daran setzen, dass am Ende die Gerechtigkeit siegt.

Recenzje

Praise for The Rat-Catchers' Olympics

"Hilarious."
The New York Times Book Review

"Cotterill has a gift for tempering bad stuff specifically, the baffling and chaotic political climate of communism circa 1980 with gently ironic humor and frequent doses of slightly kooky occultism. His books are thus a welcome balm for our own current baffling and chaotic political climate."
The Seattle Times

"Very entertaining."
WYSO, Ohio Public Radio

"The book ends with a rat-catching competition that is as bizarre as Dr. Siri s wacky sense of humor. This is a unique series."
Dayton Daily News

"The Dr. Siri books are by turns laugh-out-loud funny, sobering, convoluted, historical and endlessly entertaining . . . This series will have you reading (and laughing) well after most people in your household are sound asleep."
BookPage, Top Pick  

Praise for the Dr. Siri Paiboun Mysteries

"Dazzling."
The New York Times Book Review

Terrifically entertaining.
The Seattle Times

"Unpredictable . . . Tragically funny and magically sublime."
Entertainment Weekly
 
"You get a real feeling for what Laos was like in the '70s. The humor is wonderful, too."
New York Post
 
"The Dr. Siri books are by turns laugh-out-loud funny, sobering, convoluted, historical and endlessly entertaining . . . This series will have you reading (and laughing) well after most people in your household are sound asleep."
BookPage, Top Pick

"Along with a mystery that boils over into an international incident, Cotterill gives readers a wonderful re-creation of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Village and the preparations for the Games themselves."
Booklist, Starred Review

"Cotterill's twisty mystery plot will entertain readers while his cast of eccentric characters charms."
Shelf-Awareness

Cotterill excels in the portrayal of potentially serious and momentous topics with lighthearted humor, imbuing his characters with grace and empathy.
BookPage, Top Pick in Mystery

Stunning . . . This series offers unfailingly satisfying reading . . . bursting with caustic wit and adventurous spirit.
Booklist, Starred Review

"Crackles with humor and overflows with eccentric characters. Droll chapter titles add an extra soupcon of mirth."
Kirkus Reviews

O autorze

Colin Cotterill is the author of eleven other books in the Dr. Siri Paiboun series: The Coroner s Lunch, Thirty-Three Teeth, Disco for the Departed, Anarchy and Old Dogs, Curse of the Pogo Stick, The Merry Misogynist, Love Songs from a Shallow Grave, Slash and Burn, The Woman Who Wouldn t Die, Six and a Half Deadly Sins and I Shot the Buddha. His fiction has won a Dilys Award and a CWA Dagger in the Library. He lives in Chumphon, Thailand, with his wife and five deranged dogs.