I picked this book up on a whim while at a local thrift store. I had never heard of the author, Colin Cotterill, and I had never heard of the series, featuring Dr. Siri Paiboun.  But, pick it up I did, and, when I needed something to cheer me up after the slog that was the last book I read/reviewed, Half-Blood Blues, this book did the trick. The Merry Misogynist is a mystery set in Laos in 1978.  It features Dr. Siri Paiboun, a seventy-three-year-old […]