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DEATH OF A BLUE MOVIE STAR by Jeffrey Deaver
An early (1988) effort from Deaver, and the middle one of the Rune trilogy (preceded by Manhattan Is My Beat, and followed by Hard News), this was something of a mixed bag- Rune is a great character, and Deaver gives us some decent twists, but it’s somewhat over-padded, and is too full of the “watching or creating porn turns everybody into into serial killers” kind of mentality… (He even tells us how “real” BDSM can kill with riding crops, and makes you into a Snuff filmmaker for hire serial killer… FFS…
An early (1988) effort from Deaver, and the middle one of the Rune trilogy (preceded by Manhattan Is My Beat, and followed by Hard News), this was something of a mixed bag- Rune is a great character, and Deaver gives us some decent twists, but it’s somewhat over-padded, and is too full of the “watching or creating porn turns everybody into into serial killers” kind of mentality… (He even tells us how “real” BDSM can kill with riding crops, and makes you into a Snuff filmmaker for hire serial killer… FFS…
