About Siri Paiboun

Siri Paiboun is suddenly a busy man. Five months into his new role as National (and only) Coroner, he has been called to the capital on a ''matter of national security''.

Soon enough, he''s examining carbonized corpses, meeting the deposed king and attending a shaman''s conference.

Meanwhile, back at his woefully inadequate morgue, savagely mauled bodies are piling up and Siri''s assistant decides to investigate. Can she be dealing with a weretiger, or is it a bear of some kind? Whatever kind of animal has thirty-three teeth?