Five feet two inches of slick repartee, near-purple hair, and poetic imagination, twenty-year-old Rune hasn't been in Manhattan for very long. But she's crafty enough to have found a squatter's paradise in an empty TriBeCa loft, and a video store job that feeds her passion for old movies. It's a passion she shares with her favourite customer, Mr. Kelly, a lonely old man who rents the same video over and over. The flick is a noir classic based on a real-life unsolved bank heist and a million missing dollars. It's called Manhattan Is My Beat.

That's the tape Rune is picking up from Mr. Kelly's shabby apartment when she finds him shot to death and Rune is certain the key to solving the murder is hidden somewhere in the

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LORELEI KING's screen credits include Notting Hill, Cold Feet, Jonathan Creek, Alistair McGowan's Big Impression, and Monarch of the Glen.  She is an experienced and multi-award-winning radio actress and audiobook reader.