Colin Cotterill

Laos 1972. The communist Pathet Lao has taken over. Most of the educated class has fled. When three bodies are recovered from a reservoir, Dr Sri establishes that the cause of death was not drowing - they seem to have been electrocuted.

Dr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the Communist takeover, has been tasked with solving a mystery relating to a series of deaths by what seem to be bear bites. But whatever kind of animal has thirty-three teeth?