Rune · Book 2

Death of a Blue Movie Star

by Jeffery Deaver

Published
1 January 1990
Pages
336
ISBN-13
9781473631991
Type
novel

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About this book

At 336 pages, Death of a Blue Movie Star (1990) is the longest of the three Rune novels, continuing Jeffery Deaver's earliest series two years after Manhattan Is My Beat and pulling his single-named video-store-clerk sleuth deeper into 1980s New York's underground film world.

Its place in Rune

Death of a Blue Movie Star is book 2 in the Rune series. It follows Manhattan Is My Beat. It is followed by Hard News. See the full Rune reading order.

Rune is a young, single-named video store clerk and aspiring documentary filmmaker in 1980s New York who investigates crimes with a camera as often as with logic, treating each case as raw footage for the film she's always trying to make. It's the earliest series Jeffery Deaver wrote, launched with Manhattan Is My Beat in 1988, and its offbeat, artistically-minded amateur sleuth stands apart from the professional investigators (cops, forensic experts, kinesics analysts) who populate the rest of his body of work…

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