When Christopher Creed, the class freak and whipping boy, suddenly
disappears without a trace, first his fellow students, then all the
citizens of Steepleton join in to speculate on what could have happened
to him. As fingers begin pointing, the town starts to fall apart and
several lives are changed forever. innovative and intense, The Body of Christopher Creed will grab the reader and hang on until its chilling conclusion.
Torey
Adams is a well-liked high-school student in a respectably historic
town in South New Jersey. Both has parents are successful in their
careers and some see Torey's life as perfect. He's got a beautiful
girlfriend and enjoys comfortable life until he finds out that his
classmate, Chris Creed, is missing. There's no body yet, but the town
can't help but speculate the details. Did he just walk out of his
life? Commit suicide?
Torey's group of friends cling
to the gossip that he was murdered, possibly by someone from their
school. His friends all make jokes, particularly one outsider named Bo
Richardson. None of them can give the disappearance the respect it
deserves. This bothers Torey. He reconnects with Ali, a girl he'd been
better friends with in the past. She seems affected by the
disappearance and confides a lot of Chris's secrets to Torey. As
Chris's next door neighbour she has a great view of the Creed's house
from her bedroom window. She invited Torey over the next night to spy
on the family's weird behaviour. He agrees, even though he knows it'll
look bad if it gets back to his girlfriend. But Ali assures him that
her boyfriend is coming over as well, which will help dispel rumours.
Besides, he feels a distance between him and his friends and thinks some
time with Ali might help with his discomfort at how life has been
unfolding.
'What bugged [him] was how quick people
were to think that [Chris] had been murdered... It was easier to point
the finger at somebody else... Something inside him felt totally ready
to be completely nice to the rejects - people like Creed...'
At
Ali's he's able to shed the pressure from his friends and indulge in
the mystery of the disappearance. They watch the Creed family from her
bedroom window. Apparently, Mrs. Creed has a habit of meticulously
searching Chris's room every night. Ali speculates that she's looking
for Chris's diary. She thinks Mrs. Creed thinks it has some secret as
to her son's whereabouts.
Soon, Ali's boyfriend shows
up and Torey is surprised to see it's none other than Bo Richardson.
Torey is surprised to find the older boy kinder and more compassionate
than anyone had ever given him credit for. Sill, Bo remains true to his
reputation as trouble-maker by suggesting they break into the Creed's
house to steal the diary. Torey concocts a plan based on a movie he saw
once. He'll phone the Creed residence from a pay phone demanding money
in exchange for information regarding their son. They think this will
lure the parents out of the home giving Bo the opportunity to break into
the house. It worked so well in the movie, but has a disastrous
chain-effect resulting in Torey, Bo and Ali getting hauled into the
police station for questioning. Bo is determined to take the
consequences but Torey feels guilty. His only relief is the fact that
his mom is a lawyer who finds herself almost obligated to help Bo out of
the worst of it.
For all the trouble it caused their
plan was successful. Bo succeeded in procuring the diary from the
house. Ali and Torey become obsessed with the words inside. Through
the scribbled handwriting they discover that Chris had a girlfriend in
another town; a girl he worked with. A girl named Isabella Karzdan.
They read further to find out Chris saw a psychic with this girl. Torey
looks the girl up in the phone book and Ali and him take a trip to
visit her. She's nothing like Chris described in his diary. This tells
Ali and Torey that Chris wrote down a highly imagined life. Isabella
reveals that the psychic is her aunt and asks if they'd like to meet
her. Torey is skeptical, but when she tells him that he'll find the
body in the woods under some boulders he can't help but be curious. He
knows the exact spot Isabella's aunt is describing. Desperate to get to
the bottom of the mystery he proceeds to check the area out. It's then
that he makes a most gruesome discovery.
The Body of Christopher Creed
reveals the complex world of both high-school and adulthood and twists
in a mystery so compelling you'll want to devour the story just to find
the answer to what, exactly, happened to Christopher Creed?
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