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.

傑夫裏•迪弗

一九五〇年齣生於芝加哥，十一歲時寫齣瞭他的第一本小說，從此筆耕不輟。迪弗畢業於密蘇裏大學新聞係，後進入福德漢姆法學院研修法律。在法律界實踐瞭一段時間後，他在華爾街一傢大律師事務所開始瞭律師生涯。他興趣廣泛，曾自己寫歌唱歌，進行巡演，也曾當過雜誌社記者。與此同時， 他開始發展自己真正的興趣：寫懸疑小說。一九九〇年起，迪弗成為一名全職作傢。

迄今為止，迪弗共獲得六次 MWA（美國推理小說作傢協會）的愛倫•坡奬提名、一次尼祿•沃爾夫奬、一次安東尼奬、三次埃勒裏•奎因最佳短篇小說讀者奬。迪弗的小說被翻譯成三十五種 語言，多次登上世界各地的暢銷書排行榜。包括名作《人骨拼圖》在內，他有三部作品被搬上銀幕，同時他也為享譽世界的詹姆斯•邦德係列創作瞭最新官方小說 《自由裁決》。

迪弗的作品素以懸念重重、不斷反轉的情節著稱，常常在小說的結尾推翻，或者多次推翻之前的結論，猶如過山車般的閱讀 體驗佐以極為豐富專業的刑偵學知識，令讀者大呼過癮。其最著名的林肯•萊姆係列便是個中翹楚。另外兩個以非刑偵專業人員為主角的少女魯伊係列和電影外景勘 測員約翰•佩拉姆係列也各有特色，同樣繼承瞭迪弗小說布局精細、節奏緊張的特點，驚悚懸疑的氣氛保持到最後一頁仍迴味悠長。

除瞭犯罪偵探小說，作為美食傢的他還有意大利美食方麵的書行世。