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| AUTHOR: | STUART M. KAMINSKY |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Fawcett |
| ISBN: | 0804104654 |
| TYPE: | Fiction - Mystery/ Detective, Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural, Mystery/Suspense, Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural |
| MEDIA: | Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of Red Chameleon
Three simple cases.... Right.... Rostnikov is in the doghouse after his adventures of the first two novels in this series. He has a new boss who is, of course, a jerk. The powers that be have claimed his assistants for fairly glamourous cases: Karpo is seeking a weeping sniper and Sascha is trying to locate a car theft ring. Rostnikov is left with the "dregs" - the murder of an 84 year old Jewish man. The only clues -- one of the killers resembles a face in a 60 year old photo from the victim's youth and the killer took a brass candlestick.
Karpo and the sniper is an interesting story with a good ending. Rostnikov gets into the action on the car theft ring - a story that ends with high drama (Kaminsky's screenwriter past comes through). And then, the case of the murder is closed without a solution. Rostnikov, never one to leave things undone, keeps looking in the killing only to unveil a most interesting tale.
Overall, a solid third installment in the series. New readers are encouraged (strongly) to go back to the beginning (Death of a Dissident) as the evolution of the main characters is as much a part of the reading experience as is the solving of the crimes. And why read this series rather that the others? Half of what I like is simply the Moscow setting and learning about everyday life in 1980's Russia. The other half is that the main characters are really growing on me - Rostikov with his grit and intelligence; Karpo the stoic; and Sascha just trying to juggle his wife and mother.