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Dr Siri Paiboun may be in his seventy-third year, but he s still as sturdy as a jungle boar – and as crafty as one. Reluctant coroner to the Lao People s Democratic Republic, he s 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 s disinterment and autopsy of the body attached to the arm provide some grisly surprises but it is his gifts as a shaman that put the septuagenarian doctor on the trail of the killer. As Siri and his team close in, they must tackle a marriage proposal, brave the perils of the life on the open road, and come face-to-face with a horrific sacrificial ritual. Is it any wonder Dr Siri takes up disco dancing?