As part of Morning Edition’s “Crime in the City” series, Colin Cotterill talks about his series of mysteries set in Laos.
"’You'd find Lao people as extras in a novel talking about the Vietnam War, usually with an American protagonist, but you never saw the Lao as people,’ says Cotterill.” – from “In Colin Cotterill’s Laos, Dead Men Do Tell Tales,” by Michael Sullivan, NPR’s Morning Edition