{"product_id":"child-of-my-winter-andrew-lanh-9781464208461","title":"Child of My Winter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This complex and very timely story is a riveting study of greed and betrayal.\" --\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRick van Lam is \u003cem\u003ebui doi\u003c\/em\u003e, \"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRick 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne night as a blizzard strikes, a professor is shot down in the campus parking lot. The man had befriended Dustin, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRick 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 Dustin, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the investigation stalls and the cops close in, Rick realizes he has to break through a web of lies, anger, and betrayals, and force Dustin to reveal whatever it is he fears more than arrest for murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Lanh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1464208468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781464208461\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Poisoned Pen Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/04\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2017 pg. 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2017","brand":"Andrew Lanh","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48439263297791,"sku":"9781464208461","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_985f8306-bc40-4376-94a6-9f951eec634d.jpg?v=1777176506","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/child-of-my-winter-andrew-lanh-9781464208461","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}