Rune · Book 1
Manhattan Is My Beat
- Published
- 1 January 1988
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9781473632059
- Type
- novel
About this book
Manhattan Is My Beat (1988) is Jeffery Deaver's debut novel and the first of three cases for Rune, his single-named video-store-clerk sleuth, launching the earliest series in his body of work.
Its place in Rune
Manhattan Is My Beat is book 1 in the Rune series. It is followed by Death of a Blue Movie Star. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781473632059