Lawson
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 Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 5:26 pm Post subject: " Manhattan Is My Beat " by Jeffrey Deaver. |
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" Manhattan Is My Beat " by Jeffrey Deaver. ISBN: 9780553280616 Published 1988. Read late May 2008
" ........ Manhattan Is My Beat takes its name from the (invented) 1947 film noir watched obsessively by murder victim Robert Kelly. Our heroine, Rune, (a punk with a heart of gold) works for Washington Square Video. On a routine pickup to retrieve Manhattan Is My Beat, she discovers Kelly just shot dead, the target of a professional hit. Rune and a woman jogger glimpse the presumed killer as he speeds off in a green car. While cops drag their heels in solving the mystery, Rune takes matters into her own hands, convinced that the motive for the murder is a missing suitcase stuffed with one million dollars--the subject, not coincidentally, of the film that Kelly and Rune both admired. An avid fan of fantasy novels and prone to see life through the prism of magic and quests, Rune takes up the challenge of finding the lost money and catching Kelly's killers. But the formidable hit team is intent upon destroying both possible witnesses to the murder, and their nimble crosses and double-crosses--some of which the reader sees, some of which are revealed at the end--make for fun reading. ........"
I had never seen this J D book before, so when I saw it at the library sale for 25 pence, I bought it. Different from any of his other books ! Having said that , it has a clever storyline and is well thought out.
7 out of 10 would be a fair score for this, his first novel. |
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