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Rick Van Lam Mystery
Poison Pen Press
October 2015
On Sale: October 6, 2015
Featuring: Rick Van Lam; Hank Nguyen
308 pages
ISBN: 1464204268
EAN: 9781464204265
Kindle: B0141OX4S0
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Mystery
When Marta Kowalski is discovered beneath the Farmington
River Bridge, the police write off her death as an
unfortunate suicide. Marta had become depressed since the
death of an old friend. Marta was a simple woman who cleaned
houses, mostly for elderly professors, and faithfully
attended Mass. Sometimes she went gambling in Atlantic City
or at the Indian casinos. She had no enemies, let alone
friends. Murder? There’s no evidence of a crime. Yet her niece Karen is convinced of foul play. She hires
Amerasian Rick Van Lam, the only investigator she knows in
this bedroom community. He had never really cared for Marta.
Yes, she’d dusted his apartment a couple of times, but she
was a little too nosy. And she’d fought with a local
gardener, a full-blooded Vietnamese man. Jimmy, his mentor
and partner at nearby Hartford, Connecticut’s Gaddy
Associates, aces at insurance fraud, frowns on Rick taking
another murder case. But aided by his sidekick Hank Nguyen
and Hank’s wise Buddhist grandmother, Rick begins asking
questions and finds himself mired in affluent Farmington’s
parochial pettiness and scandal. Digging deeper, he unearths rivalries, jealousies, and
viciousness to shame a Miss Marple village—and realizes to
his amazement that Marta was no mere unassuming housekeeper.
Any number of townsfolk had reason to shove her off that
bridge—one of them mind-blowing.
Rick Van Lam
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