Death of a Blue Movie Star

Written by Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by Tanya Eby

Twenty-one-year-old Rune is an aspiring filmmaker, but so far her only break has been scoring a job as an underpaid production assistant in Manhattan. Still, she's always on the lookout for the perfect topic for her own film-and she thinks she's found it when she witnesses the bombing of a triple-X movie theater in Times Square.

Rune's got a great hook for her documentary: She plans to film it through the eyes of Shelly Lowe, the porn star whose movie was playing at the theater when it exploded. But just hours after Rune films a poignant Shelly reflecting on her dreams of becoming a serious actress, a second bomb silences the beautiful film star forever. Was Shelly in the wrong place at the wrong time-or was she the bomber's target all along?

Rune vows to find out the truth behind the death of this blue movie star. But as she struggles to finish shooting her film, Rune's labor of love may be her final masterpiece-as a shooting of a more lethal kind threatens to write an ending to this story that no one wants to see . . .

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Aug 8, 2017
• ISBN: 9781541478589

Jeffery Deaver

Jeffery Deaver is the No.1 international bestselling author of more than forty novels, three collections of short stories, and a nonfiction law book. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into twenty-five languages.

Reviews for Death of a Blue Movie Star

[susandennis-139327 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Bill Farley, the owner of my favorite bookshop, made me read this book because of the main character. Rune (and that's all the name she has) is a character you won't soon forget. She's delicious. A little bit street person, a little bit sophisticate, a little bit waif, a little bit in total control. She's amazing. She's trying to break into the film business and in the process collects dangerous evidence with her video camera. There is one other Rune book and I'm saving it for a special occasion.

[cloggiedownunder · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Death of a Blue Movie Star is the second book in Jeffrey Deaver’s Rune series. Rune is living on a houseboat and working at becoming a film-maker. Following bomb attacks on adult theatres and studios, she decides to make a documentary about the life of a blue movie star. As usual, she gets involved in far more than she intends, including porn stars, the NYPD bomb squad, religious fanatics and leathergoods ads. Rune’s naiveté is truly entertaining. With an excellent plot twist at the end, this a great read

[riverwillow · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Very readable, with lots of Deaver's plot twists and turns. This is set in the early 1980s and felt very dated. However Rune is an interesting character. It's quite gruesome in places and the plot holds together well. The problem is that terrible things happen to some of the characters along the way, and I'm not sure that I cared.