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The Red Chameleon

di Erica Wright

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As a private investigator, Kathleen Stone relies on her ability to blend into the background. Aided by her street-smart drag queen friend and the best wigmaker in New York City, she feels confident that her camouflage is up to snuff. But when a cheating spouse she's been trailing ends up dead under suspicious circumstances, she fears that someone she angered in her past job--busting gangs and drug dealers as an undercover cop--has seen through her disguises. Now she must work with her former colleagues in the NYPD to solve the case before she's the next victim.… (altro)
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Hard to believe that a former NYC undercover cop could make SO many stupid decisions, and have things miraculously work out. Told from perspective of heroine Katherine Stone, we follow her around. The highlight is her ability to play many roles, with an impressive collection of wigs and outfits, her friend Dolly, and occasional humor. Reminiscent, but not as good as Evanovich's Stephanie Plum, Kat even has dual love interests, but a failure to launch. The downside is this book lacks thrills, any real mystery, and a clear ending. Also, the attempt to integrate her back story was choppy and distracting. Skip it.
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  skipstern | Jul 11, 2021 |
"The Red Chameleon" is a debut novel about an ex-cop turned PI that entertained but needed a little more focus and a different narrator.


There were a lot of things that worked well in this book and a couple of things that disappointed.

The premise of the book, which kicks off a series that currently stands at three books, is that, at twenty-seven, Kat Stone is already an ex-cop having resigned following a traumatic under-cover tour virtually straight out of the academy. Now she works as a PI, mostly doing divorce work. She's pushed out of her recently assembled comfort zone and back to confronting her old life when the suspected-of-cheating man she's following is killed and she looks like the prime suspect.

I liked how well-thought-through Kat Stone's character was. In the present day, she hides behind a series of characters, each with its own wig and look, who she uses to do her investigations but which also prevent her from having to come to terms with who she is now that she's not under-cover and what being under-cover did to her. This allows Kat to be a little flippant and faux-sassy one the surface and troubled underneath.

This duality is reflected in the plot in which Kat tries to untangle the murder she's associated with while flashing back along the way to give us the history of her life under-cover, sharing the bad things that happened to her there and showing the frightening possibility of links between her past and the current murder.

The humour in the present-day investigation worked well. The comments and descriptions had me snorting a few times but some of the humour seemed to me to make Kat too much like Stephanie Plumb for an ex-under-cover cop.

The flashbacks were the most intense parts of the book. The transitions were handled well and the pace at which Kat's past was shared was well judged to add to tension and character development.

The present-day plot worked until the very end when it all collapsed a bit. The final scene at the Amusement Park wasn't quite tense enough and the wrap-up that followed felt a little tacked on.

I listened to the audiobook version of "The Red Chameleon", narrated by Rachel Dulude who, to me, didn't seem a good fit for this book. Rachel Dulude handled the humorous dialogue very well and came up with distinctive voices for the characters but she seemed to stumble over some of the text as if reading it for the first time and didn't seem able to adjust her tone to deal with the serious violence and threat in the book.

I recommend going with a text version of the book.

Check out the narration for yourself by clicking on the SoundCloud link below:
https://soundcloud.com/caroline-sharp/the-red-chameleon ( )
  MikeFinnFiction | May 16, 2020 |
I think this author and series have potential although they were not fully developed in this particular book. It was hard for me to understand a trained police detective making as many sloppy mistakes as Kathleen did, and I would like to have seen the secondary characters fleshed out a little more. Still, I think this has great series potential and I look forward to seeing what the author does next. ( )
  vnesting | Oct 26, 2014 |
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As a private investigator, Kathleen Stone relies on her ability to blend into the background. Aided by her street-smart drag queen friend and the best wigmaker in New York City, she feels confident that her camouflage is up to snuff. But when a cheating spouse she's been trailing ends up dead under suspicious circumstances, she fears that someone she angered in her past job--busting gangs and drug dealers as an undercover cop--has seen through her disguises. Now she must work with her former colleagues in the NYPD to solve the case before she's the next victim.

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