Book Log 2017 #13- Manhattan Is My Beat
Sep. 23rd, 2017 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lonemagpieMANHATTAN IS MY BEAT by Jeffery Deaver.
A nice little thriller with an engaging central character, set in 1988 NYC, about a murder related to an old movie based on a real (within the context of the story) robbery. It's nicely done, fairly typical early Deaver, but has an interesting air 30 years later, as the lead character is a dreamer who works in a video rental shop – something that hasn't existed for a few years. There's a weird sort of nostalgia to that, which is appropriate considering the character's nostalgia for vitnage 1930s/40s film. So there's kind of a nostalgia within nostalgia thing going there that now is unintentionally meta.
I know there are a couple of sequels, which I have, so I'll look forward to them....
A nice little thriller with an engaging central character, set in 1988 NYC, about a murder related to an old movie based on a real (within the context of the story) robbery. It's nicely done, fairly typical early Deaver, but has an interesting air 30 years later, as the lead character is a dreamer who works in a video rental shop – something that hasn't existed for a few years. There's a weird sort of nostalgia to that, which is appropriate considering the character's nostalgia for vitnage 1930s/40s film. So there's kind of a nostalgia within nostalgia thing going there that now is unintentionally meta.
I know there are a couple of sequels, which I have, so I'll look forward to them....