Rick Van Lam novels
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"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...
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2015
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English
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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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On a sunny afternoon in Hartford, Connecticut, PI Rick Van Lam's Vietnam-vet mentor and partner, Jimmy, and Jimmy's old army pal, Ralph, are attacked as they walk down a city sidewalk. Ralph is killed, and Jimmy, backing up, is struck by a car. While the battered Jimmy is under the care of Rick's landlord and friend, Gracie, where an improbable romance seems to be blooming, Rick finds himself in a quandary―he's asked to clear the name of the two...
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2017.
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"Amerasian Rick - his father an unknown US soldier - is one of the Bui Doi, children of the dust, so often rejected by Vietnamese culture. Rick was lucky ending up in Hartford, Connecticut where he's made a life as an insurance investigator after leaving that of a cop at the NYPD. He owes his survival in part to the loving support of his friend Hank Nguyen's multigenerational family. He's now teaching some classes at the college where his empathy...
