Chameleon [Paperback]

Shirley Kennett (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• ASIN: B002Q810P8
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

More About the Author

I've worn a number of hats, including those of corporate analyst, business systems programmer, independent computer consultant , and pet store employee (the one who cleans the cages), but my writer's hat is by far the most comfortable - and most satisfying - of them all. I've been a mystery fan as long as I can remember, which may have had something to do with growing up in a converted turn-of-the-century funeral home.

I've been involved with computers most of my life. In my consulting career, I focused on improving the quality of patient care through computerized clinical applications. Conducting business with clients around the country from my home office, I was a pioneer of telecommuting before the word was commonplace.

Starting married life as a teenager, I recently celebrated over three decades of married life with my husband. I discovered motherhood not in the usual fashion, but by bringing home an adopted child from Peru, astounding myself by falling in love with my son at first sight, changing my first diaper (ever), and floating down the Amazon, all on the same trip. Since then, an Ethiopian boy has joined our family. The two boys, now fifteen years old, created 'twins' from greatly different cultures. Truly mine is a global family.

I'm a St. Louis native and a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the American Crime Writers League, and International Thriller Writers. My hobbies are reading (not surprising), gardening, and photography.

I have six thrillers published, more on the way, plus I'm trying something new: a tie-in book for the TV series Without A Trace. Look for it in the summer of July 2007.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Timely, well-written, and chilling., March 25, 2000

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Robert Crawford (Hudson, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chameleon (Mass Market Paperback)

In light of the 12 year old Ohio boy who'd recently held his classmates and teacher at gunpoint with a fully ,oaded 9 mm semiautomatic, this book almost seems like a prophecy. Kennett has written an engrossing, ultimately terrifying story that bids fair to re-sharpen the blunted sensibilities of we who have been treated to an almost weekly dose of school vilence.

CHAMELEON is a disturbing book that, while it doesn't even begin to promise a solution to schoolyard violence, stills presents a chilling, well-written account of the consequences of parents and teachers not reading the signs.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Timely and chilling, May 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Chameleon (Mass Market Paperback)

Talk about ripped from the headlines. This book deals with juvenile violence, and I swear the author must be psychic because this book has been out in hardcover since last year but it forecasted current happenings. The story centers on a young sociopath (Ever wonder where those 30 year old serial killers come from? Well, here's one in the making.) who has created a world for himself inside his computer that is more comfortable for him than the real world. Then he starts to get them confused, real vs. fantasy. As Kennett develops this, it is 100% plausible and chilling to the bone. Not only does this book have a great villain, it also has investigators that are real people I can identify with, especially PJ Gray. I can hardly wait for the next book in this series so I can find out where the relationship between PJ and Schultz is going. If there's a relationship at all!! What Kennett has got here is a hard-boiled romantic suspense, something completely new, something for those of us who find Mary Higgins Clark a piece of fluff. I couldn't put the book down, especially the last 50 or 60 pages. I read this book in the series first, but now I'm going back for the others. I've got to find out how PJ and Schultz met for the first time, and what they thought of each other then.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can't sleep until you're finished!, January 11, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Chameleon (Mass Market Paperback)

This was my 2d Kennett book. In both cases I couldn't go to sleep until I finished. If you like Cornwell, and mysteries with plenty of hi-tech this is the series for you!!