Woman Who Wouldn't Die

The long-awaitedfollow-up to Slash and Burn and the ninth installment in Colin Cotterill'sbestselling mystery series starring the inimitable Lao national coroner, Dr.SiriIn a small Lao village, a very strange thing has happened. Awoman was shot and killed in her bed during a burglary; she was given a funeraland everyone in the village saw her body burned. Then, three days later, shewas back in her house as if she'd never been dead at all. But now she'sclairvoyant and can speak to the dead. That's why the long-dead brother of a Laogeneral has enlisted her to help his brother uncover his remains, which havebeen lost at the bottom of a river for many years.Lao national coroner Dr. Siri Paiboun and his wife,Madame Daeng, are sent along to supervise the excavation. It could be a kind ofrelaxing vacation for them, maybe, except Siri is obsessed with the pretty, undeadmedium's special abilities, and Madame Daeng might be a little jealous. Shedoesn't trust the woman for some reason. Is her hunch right? What is the groupreally digging for at the bottom of this remote river on the Thai border? Whatwar secrets are being covered up?