Death of a Blue Movie Star - Softcover

Deaver, Jeffery

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340793120 ISBN 13: 9780340793121

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001

Synopsis

She calls herself Rune. She lives a downtown life and works running errands for a couple of documentary filmmakers. At twenty-one, she's nowhere, and that's not where she wants to be. So, armed with a borrowed Betacam, she embarks on a freelance career of making movies herself. Unfortunately her first attempt - within the hallowed walls of the XXX Velvet Venus Theatre - was unexpectedly interesting. A bomb takes out half the cinema and a number of patrons. Rune, however, sees the possibilities and decides to track the culprit through the New York underworld - with her camera in tow, as well as Bomb Squad Detective Sam Healy. And thus begins her journey into the heart of the city of neon nightmares...

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From the Inside Flap:

Twenty-one-year-old Rune is an aspiring filmmaker, but so far her only break has been scoring a job as an underpaid production assistant in Manhattan. Still, she's always on the lookout for the perfect topic for her own film--and she thinks she's found it when she witnesses the bombing of a triple-X movie theater in Times Square. Rune's got a great hook for her documentary: She plans to film it through the eyes of Shelly Lowe, the porn star whose movie was playing at the theater when it exploded.  But just hours after Rune films a poignant Shelly reflecting on her dreams of becoming a serious actress, a second bomb silences the beautiful film star forever. Was Shelly in the wrong place at the wrong time--or was she the bomber's target all along? Rune vows to find out the truth behind the death of this blue movie star. But as she struggles to finish shooting her film, Rune's labor of love may be her final masterpiece--as a shooting of a more lethal kind threatens to write an ending to this story that no one wants to see....

From the Back Cover:

"The author creates a great sense of atmosphere, enhanced with vivid imagery and well-defined characters."
-- Rendezvous

"Highly original and very entertaining."
-- Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine

Don't miss Jeffery Deaver's other gripping novels featuring his unforgettable heroine Rune
"[Rune] is a breath of fresh air!"
-- Booklist

Manhattan Is My Beat

"Highly original and very entertaining."
-- Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine

and look for:

The Lesson Of Her Death
Mistress Of Justice

Available from Bantam Books
And the third Rune mystery:

Hard News

"Peerless entertainment."
-- Kirkus Reviews

Coming soon from Bantam Books!

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0340793120
• ISBN 13: 9780340793121
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336