The Rune Trilogy is a series of crime fiction novels by American novelists Jeffery Deaver. The lead in the series is the title character Rune, a young streetwise woman living in New York City. Rune makes her first appearance in the first novel in the series Manhattan Is My Beat that was published in 1988.
When we are first introduced to Rune, she is an aspiring filmmaker that just moved to New York City. Rune spends most of her time watching movies but often finds herself embroiled in a range of crime and murder mysteries. Curious and driven by her love for film making her investigations with her camera puts her in danger while having the potential to make her career.
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Rune is walking down the street when a bomb goes off outside a porn theater. She escapes death by a whisker and sees the happening as a perfect opportunity to make a film as seen from the perspective of Shelly Lowe a porn star. But a second bomb takes out her star leaving her wondering about the motivation of the bomber. Her investigations soon lead her into one of the darkest of mysteries that portends danger. Nonetheless, in the pursuit for truth and her film, she will not relent even in the face of personal danger.
Hard News the last novel in the trilogy is another remarkable novel in the series that sees Rune push the limits of her experience on capabilities. Rune is working as a camera operator for one of the major television stations when she gets a letter from a prisoner on death row. After initial investigations, she believes the man is innocent and proceeds to make a story documenting his innocence on the program Network Current Events.
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Many Rune Trilogy fans are also fans of the Alex Delaware series of novels by Jonathan Kellerman. The novels are psychological thrillers about child psychologist Alex Delaware who solves a range of criminal mysteries using clinical psychology. Rune Trilogy fans also love the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Series by Faye Kellerman. The series features LAPD lieutenant Peter Drucker who solves crimes while
When we are first introduced to Rune, she is an aspiring filmmaker that just moved to New York City. Rune spends most of her time watching movies but often finds herself embroiled in a range of crime and murder mysteries. Curious and driven by her love for film making her investigations with her camera puts her in danger while having the potential to make her career.
Manhattan Is My Beat the first novel in the series introduces Rune as a …show more content…
Rune is walking down the street when a bomb goes off outside a porn theater. She escapes death by a whisker and sees the happening as a perfect opportunity to make a film as seen from the perspective of Shelly Lowe a porn star. But a second bomb takes out her star leaving her wondering about the motivation of the bomber. Her investigations soon lead her into one of the darkest of mysteries that portends danger. Nonetheless, in the pursuit for truth and her film, she will not relent even in the face of personal danger.
Hard News the last novel in the trilogy is another remarkable novel in the series that sees Rune push the limits of her experience on capabilities. Rune is working as a camera operator for one of the major television stations when she gets a letter from a prisoner on death row. After initial investigations, she believes the man is innocent and proceeds to make a story documenting his innocence on the program Network Current Events.
OTHER BOOK SERIES YOU MAY LIKE:
Many Rune Trilogy fans are also fans of the Alex Delaware series of novels by Jonathan Kellerman. The novels are psychological thrillers about child psychologist Alex Delaware who solves a range of criminal mysteries using clinical psychology. Rune Trilogy fans also love the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Series by Faye Kellerman. The series features LAPD lieutenant Peter Drucker who solves crimes while