Five feet two inches of slick repartee, near-purple hair, and poetic imagination, twenty-year-old Rune hasn't been in Manhattan for very long. But she's crafty enough to have found a squatter's paradise in an empty TriBeCa loft, and a video store job that feeds her passion for old movies. It's a passion she shares with her favorite customer, Mr. Kelly, a lonely old man who rents the same video over and over. The flick is a noir classic based on a real-life unsolved bank heist and a million missing dollars. It's called Manhattan Is My Beat .

That's the tape Rune is picking up from Mr. Kelly's shabby apartment when she finds him shot to death. The police suspect a robbery gone wrong, but Rune is certain the key to solving the murder is hidden somewhere in the hazy, black-and-white frames of Mr. Kelly's beloved movie. But as Rune hits the mean streets of New York to find answers, she gets caught up in a dangerous adventure more chilling than anything Hollywood could dream up. As her story draws to its terrifying conclusion, Rune's final close-up may include the killer of a co-star.

杰夫里•迪弗

一九五〇年出生于芝加哥,十一岁时写出了他的第一本小说,从此笔耕不辍。迪弗毕业于密苏里大学新闻系,后进入福德汉姆法学院研修法律。在法律界实践了一段时间后,他在华尔街一家大律师事务所开始了律师生涯。他兴趣广泛,曾自己写歌唱歌,进行巡演,也曾当过杂志社记者。与此同时, 他开始发展自己真正的兴趣：写悬疑小说。一九九〇年起,迪弗成为一名全职作家。

迄今为止,迪弗共获得六次 MWA（美国推理小说作家协会）的爱伦•坡奖提名、一次尼禄•沃尔夫奖、一次安东尼奖、三次埃勒里•奎因最佳短篇小说读者奖。迪弗的小说被翻译成三十五种 语言,多次登上世界各地的畅销书排行榜。包括名作《人骨拼图》在内,他有三部作品被搬上银幕,同时他也为享誉世界的詹姆斯•邦德系列创作了最新官方小说 《自由裁决》。

迪弗的作品素以悬念重重、不断反转的情节著称,常常在小说的结尾推翻,或者多次推翻之前的结论,犹如过山车般的阅读 体验佐以极为丰富专业的刑侦学知识,令读者大呼过瘾。其最著名的林肯•莱姆系列便是个中翘楚。另外两个以非刑侦专业人员为主角的少女鲁伊系列和电影外景勘 测员约翰•佩拉姆系列也各有特色,同样继承了迪弗小说布局精细、节奏紧张的特点,惊悚悬疑的气氛保持到最后一页仍回味悠长。

除了犯罪侦探小说,作为美食家的他还有意大利美食方面的书行世。