Death Stalks the Khmer - Softcover

Harrington, Patricia

3.5

6 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1588513505 ISBN 13: 9781588513502

Publisher: Publishamerica Inc, 2001

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A Cambodian refugee couple living in the Seattle area are shot and killed in their apartment. The Khmer community whispers that their deaths were caused by bad karma. Bridget (Bridg) O’Hern believes the couple’s deaths are rooted in the horrors of the Khmer Rouge years. Bridg is assigned as a liaison between the community and the police investigating the homicides. Little does she know when she signs on to help that she, too, may be a target for murder -- or worse.

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About the Author:

Patricia Harrington has worked 11 years with the Cambodian refugee community in the Puget Sound area. She has drawn on this rich background to write an intriguing whodunit. This mystery entertains while telling the poignant story of the novel's characters who are never quite able to leave the "Killing Fields" of Cambodia behind them. This is the first in a series featuring sleuth Bridget O'Hern, 48, who is "seeking her bliss, and finds murder along her way. The author's short mystery fiction has appeared in Over My Dead Body!, FUTURES for writers with fire to fly, Mystery Time, MysteryNet, MysteryBooks@About.com and NEFARIOUS Tales of Mystery. When Harrington isn't working on her next mystery, she's writing grants for her community.

Review:

A traditional mystery surrounded with an aura of intrique that is unique and anything "but" traditional. -- Barbara Lakey, Editor, FUTURES Magazine

More than a simple work of fiction . . . it's a sweeping portrait of the process of assimilation framed by murder. -- Sandra Morgan, Editor, The Fiction Forest

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