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Following Christopher Creed ReviewIt's been five years since Christopher Creed disappeared, four since Torey Adams launched his website, ChrisCreed.com, in an attempt to make sense of the the way his classmate vanished into thin air. Five years - and not a single, solitary trace of Chris Creed has ever been found. Then Torey posts a new message on his website: a body has been discovered in the woods outside of Steepleton.
Mike Mavic, a legally blind college reporter who sees more than most, has been a huge fan of ChrisCreed.com from the beginning. Chris's story, told with both sympathy and honesty by Adams, is not so very different from his own - right down to the domineering and obsessively controlling mother. When he reads Torey's latest post, Mike knows he has to get to Steepleton. Here is his chance to uncover a story that could well and truly launch his career as a journalist. More than that, he can face his own demons by telling Chris Creed's tale - but do it from a step removed. Determined to get to the root of the Creed disappearance, Mike sells his laptop and buys a plane ticket for New Jersey.
When he arrives in town, Mike learns two things right away. The first is that the body in the woods is not Christopher Creed's, but that doesn't necessarily kill his story. Because the second thing Mike discovers is that Steepleton has been living under a cloud of bad luck and ill feelings ever since Creed disappeared. To the current crop of high school kids, Chris Creed's vanishing act is just another local legend - something from the past that doesn't mean anything important to them, with one exception. Chris Creed's brother Justin, now a high school student himself, has recently become obsessed with his brother's vanishing act. Deeply troubled and falling quickly into drug addiction, Justin teeters on the edge of mental catastrophe. As he travels about Steepleton completing his interviews, Mike struggles to hang on to his journalistic objectivity as he seeks a way to help Justin learn what happened to Christopher Creed.
I loved The Body of Christopher Creed, so a sequel written along the same lines - a psychological mystery powered by an ever-increasing thread of tension - would have hard time living up to the standard that the first book set. But while Following Christopher Creed is undoubtedly another top-flight psychological mystery, it is also markedly different from its predecessor in some respects. Where the first novel was more like a cable being wound ever tighter, this sequel is that same cable as it frays and then comes steadily unwound. It is an unraveling of kinks and knots that leads to a central core of truth.
The Body of Christopher Creed was essentially two stories, a pair of excellent, intricate character studies. The life of Christopher Creed was revealed in absentia while the reader watched Torey Adams in the present as his relentless quest for the truth gradually alienated him from most of the other residents of Steepleton. Following Christopher Creed is also built around two stories. It's about the events that have lead to Justin Creed's slide toward drug abuse and mental illness since his brother's disappearance and also about Mike Mavic's journey toward making peace with his own difficult past. As with the first novel, Ms. Plum-Ucci has used prose, plot and pacing here brilliantly to hook the reader from the first scene and keep him or her feverishly turning pages until the very end.
Note: It is not strictly necessary to have read The Body of Christopher Creed before you read Following Christopher Creed (although you should, because it is amazing). Where information form the first book is needed, Ms. Plum-Ucci has made clever use of Mavic's exhaustive knowledge of the contents of [...] to fill in the necessary background.Following Christopher Creed Overview

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