Andrew Lanh
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Mary Le Vu, wife of a poor grocery-store owner, is gunned down in a drive-by. Her twin sister insists dutiful Mary 'wouldn't be caught dead' in that drug-infested zone. The police rule it an unlucky accident. Skeptics hire private eye Rick Van Lam to get to the truth. Amerasian Rick--his father an unknown US soldier--is one of the Bui Doi, children of the dust, so often rejected by Vietnamese culture. But his young sidekick, Hank Nguyen, a pureblood...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Rick van Lam is bui doi, "a child of dust," as the Vietnamese scornfully called a mixed-blood kid whose father was an unknown American GI. But Rick was lucky-in time he was sent to America. And he's ended up in Hartford, Connecticut, where he's made a life as a private eye after leaving a career as a cop at the NYPD. Rick is also teaching a part-time course at Farmington College where brainy Vietnamese student Dustin Trang, a scholarship student with...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When the body of Marta Kowalski, a simple woman who cleaned houses for a living, is found under the Farmington River Bridge, the police write it off as a suicide. But Marta's niece thinks otherwise and hires Rick Van Lam to dig deeper into the affluent Farmington community for evidence of murder.
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