The seventh Dr. Siri Paiboun mystery
When a Lao female security officer is discovered stabbed through the
heart with a fencing sword, Dr. Siri, the reluctant national coroner for
the People's Democratic Republic of Laos, is brought in to examine the
body. Soon two other young women are found killed in the same unusual
way. Siri learns that all three victims studied in Europe and that one
of them was being pursued by a mysterious stalker. But before he can
solve the case, he is whisked away to Cambodia on a diplomatic mission.
Though on the surface the Khmer Rouge seem to be committed to the
socialist cause, Siri soon learns the horrifying truth of the killing
fields and finds himself thrown into prison. Can the
seventy-four-year-old doctor escape with his life?