This is book six in the Dr. Siri series. Seventy-three year old Lao state coroner, Dr. Siri Paiboun, is in trouble with the government again. This time it is for not living in the home assigned to him by the government and allowing an assortment of others to live there including a couple prostitutes, a Buddhist monk, the Hmong twins Siri took custody of in the previous book, and others. Dr. Siri is now living above his new wife's noodle shop. While dealing with that, the morgue receives the body of a beautiful young woman who has been tortured, sexually assaulted and murdered. It is the first time the morgue staff has encountered such a crime. Soon they discover that she is not the first victim like this and Dr. Siri, Mme Daeng (his wife), and Nurse Dtui's husband, officer Phosy try to track down a serial killer. In addition, Dr. Siri and Mme Daeng are searching for "Crazy Rajid", an Indian local who has vanished while leaving cryptic poems as clues. As crime/mystery tales go, this series would be average were it not for the collection of colorful characters that Cotterill has created. On to book seven.
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