A Daughter's Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story
By
Jeremy Grimaldi
Dundurn,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 2016
Review by Robert A.
Waters
In
the early morning hours of November 8, 2010, Hann Pan awoke to a
pistol against his head. He was lead downstairs where he found
another gunman holding his wife, Bich-Ha. Three robbers demanded
money, big money. The Pans had a little over $2,000 in the house
and gave it to the masked intruders. Then a volley of shots rang
out. When it was over, Bich-Ha lay dead and Hann, debilitated by
gunshots, stumbled out of the house to get help.
A
third family member, 24-year-old Jennifer Pan, survived the
shootings. She'd been tied to an upstairs railing, and called 911
after the robbers left.
At
first it seemed to be a random home invasion. But police
investigators would soon uncover a dark plot so twisted it almost
defied belief. Jennifer had left the door open for the killers, then
had played victim for the cops when they arrived. However, she
hadn't planned for her father to survive. After several days in a
coma, Hann awoke and revealed his daughter's part in the plot.
Hann
and Bich-Ha were Vietnam immigrants. Both worked hard and expected
their children to do the same. Their son was a successful university
student, and, until recently, the Pans thought Jennifer had been
studying to be a pharmacist at the University of Toronto. But all
was not as it seemed.
With
this book, Jeremy Grimaldi has taken his place as one of Canada's
premier true crime authors.
In
A
Daughter's Deadly Deception,
the reader is carried into a world of “tiger parenting,” in which
Asian children are pushed by their parents to succeed, regardless of
the cost. The reader encounters love, betrayal, and finally,
cold-blooded murder.
I
highly recommend this book to my American and Canadian readers.
