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Caught Dead, November 2014
Hardcover / e-Book

CAUGHT DEAD
By: Joe Resjan

Poisoned Pen Press
November 2014
On Sale: November 4, 2014
Featuring: Mary Le Vu; Rick Van Lam; Hank Nguyen
400 pages
ISBN: 146420330X
EAN: 9781464203305
Kindle: B00OPEFSAY
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery

One of the beautiful Le sisters is dead. Hartford, Connecticut’s small Vietnamese community is stunned. 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 pure blood Vietnamese, can help Rick navigate the closed world of Little Saigon. Surrounded by close friends—a former-Rockette landlady, his crusty mentor, and his ex-wife Liz—Rick immerses himself in a world that rejects him, but now needs his help. Especially when a second murder strikes in Little Saigon.

Rick and Hank delve into the families of the Le sisters, one poor, one very rich, and uncover a world of explosive ethnic tension and sinister criminal activity ranging from Hartford’s exclusive white suburbs to the impoverished inner city. To solve the murders—and bring closure to Mary’s grieving circle—Rick looks to long-buried memories of his Buddhist childhood for the wisdom that will lead him to a murderer.

Caught Dead starts a smart, unusual series.