What Fiction are you reading this week, February 15, 2026?

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I am reading Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill, the second in the Dr. Siri Paiboun series. Dr. Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the Communist takeover, is now the national coroner. He can unravel mysterious murders "because the spirits of the dead are on his side," and sometimes uncomfortably so. This is a delightful, sometimes brutal, and amazing look at life in Laos in 1960's-70's. The author lives there so has great insight into the situation there.

Listening to A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci. As DUer Bayard said last week, "It's a wowzer." Indeed it is. Many reviewers say it's Baldacci's best. I believe it.