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008    161203s2017    azu           000 1 eng d 
010      2016961974 
020    9781464208461 
020    1464208468 
020    9781464208485|q(trade paperback) 
020    1464208484|q(trade paperback) 
035    (OCoLC)965331019 
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049    CKEA 
050  4 PS3559.F439|bC45 2017 
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092    813.0000 
100 1  Lanh, Andrew,|eauthor. 
245 10 Child of my winter /|cAndrew Lanh. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 Scottsdale, AZ :|bPoisoned Pen Press,|c2017. 
300    275 pages ;|c22 cm. 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
490 1  A Rick Van Lam mystery 
520    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 no social skills and an oddly hostile family,
       is scorned and bullied. It reminds Rick of his own 
       miserable days in a Saigon orphanage and he reaches out. 
       But Dustin rebuffs him. One night as a blizzard strikes, a
       professor is shot down in the campus parking lot. The man 
       had befriended Justin, but their relationship had visibly 
       soured. Dustin is everyone's hot suspect for the murder, 
       but Rick believes the boy is innocent. Oddly, Dustin seems
       indifferent to others' suspicion that he's a killer. And 
       he seems resistant to helping his case. Rick knows he owes
       who he has become to the loving support of his friend, 
       Hank Nguyen, and Hank's multigenerational family. To pay 
       it forward for Justin, Rick persuades Hank, a state cop, 
       and some of his circle of Hartford friends to dig into 
       Dustin's dysfunctional world, interviewing faculty and 
       students, relatives, and a busy congregation that seems to
       be a focal point for the fractured Trang family. As the 
       investigation stalls and the cops close in, Rick realizes 
       he has to break though a web of lies, anger, and betrayals,
       and force Justin to reveal whatever it is he fears more 
       than arrest for murder. 
650  0 Private investigators|zConnecticut|zHartford|vFiction. 
650  0 Vietnamese Americans|zConnecticut|zHartford|vFiction. 
650  0 Murder|xInvestigation|vFiction. 
650  0 Amerasians|zConnecticut|zHartford|vFiction. 
650  1 Multiracial people|vFiction. 
655  7 Mystery fiction.|2gsafd 
655  7 Detective and mystery fiction.|2lcgft 
800 1  Lanh, Andrew.|tRick Van Lam mystery ;|v4. 
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