Used. Mass Market Paperback. Before Jeffery Deaver was keeping Lincoln Rhyme busy dodging bones, he introduced us to Rune, a purple-haired cinephile squatting in TriBeCa and clerking her way through the golden age of cinema. When her favorite regular customer is permanently put on pause after renting the same noir bank-heist flick for the hundredth time, our plucky protagonist decides the celluloid classic holds the director's cut to his murder. She hits the mean streets of Manhattan chasing shadows and suspects, proving that life on the lam is rarely as clean as a studio montage. It is a snappy, cinematic mystery that trades forensic labs for local video stores, making it a reel treat for anyone who prefers their crime served with a side of classic Hollywood.