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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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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? Thereβs 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, sheβd dusted his apartment a couple of times, but she was a little too nosy. And sheβd fought with a local gardener, a full-blooded Vietnamese man. Jimmy, his mentor and partner at nearby Hartford, Connecticutβs Gaddy Associates, aces at insurance fraud, frowns on Rick taking another murder case. But aided by his sidekick Hank Nguyen and Hankβs wise Buddhist grandmother, Rick begins asking questions and finds himself mired in affluent Farmingtonβs parochial pettiness and scandal. Digging deeper, he unearths rivalries, jealousies, and viciousness to shame a Miss Marple villageβand realizes to his amazement that Marta was no mere unassuming housekeeper. Any number of townsfolk had reason to shove her off that bridgeβone of them mind-blowing.
Rick Van Lam RETURN TO DUST
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β’ October 2015
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