Music for Chameleons

At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a ‘nonfiction novel’ based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer. Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. Also in this volume are six short stories and seven ‘conversational portraits’ including a touching one of Marilyn Monroe, the ‘beautiful child’ and a hilarious one of a dope-smoking cleaning lady doing her rounds in New York. ‘The most scintillating, original, fertile and stimulating book I have read for a very long time’ Sunday Express ‘The superb final achievement by one of the more seriously undervalued American literary careers’ – Observer