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|title=The Chameleon's Shadow

|author=Minette Walters

|buy=No

|borrow=Yes

|pages=400

|publisher=Macmillan

|isbn=978-0230015661

|sort=Chameleon's Shadow

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Lieutenant Charles Acland is serving in Iraq when a roadside bomb shatters the lives of him and his colleagues. He is the lucky one - he survives, but with enduring injuries, particularly to the face. When he comes to in hospital, he realises he has lost eight weeks of his life. Things begin to come back to him slowly, but his personality seems to have been changed for good. When he is finally released from hospital, he moves to London where he lives the life of a hermit, until one day when he is involved in a fight in a bar and is rescued by an iron-pumping female doctor called Jackson. But the fight has caught the attention of the police, who are investigating the murders of several homosexuals in the area. Acland was living in the area when the first murders took place and, lo and behold, now his is back, another has occured. Is it a coincidence or does Acland have more to do with the murders than he can remember?

This is not a bad book. It just didn't end on the same powerful note that it started, but I still think that any fans of Minette Walters and crime fiction in general will enjoy it to a certain extent - it isn't one of her best, but it is still better than a lot of the competition. Three personal stars from me, but three Bookbag stars.

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