The Christopher Killer Essay

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17-year-old Cameryn Mahoney's dad is the town's coroner, and Cameryn wants to follow in his footsteps. She eventually persuades him to hire her as his new assistant, but she has no idea that one of the first deaths, she'll investigate is one of her good friends Rachel. Rachel is the fourth victim in a series of killings known as Christopher Killings, girls who are strangled and then left with St. Christopher medals on their corpses. The book The Christopher Killer is an adequate book, even though it somewhat lacks energy, does not focus on the plotline very well but had an exciting ending. The Christopher Killer lacked much energy, especially in the beginning. By that I mean the book lacks many twists and turns to keep the reader …show more content…

The author would rather focus on Cameryn and her unrelated thoughts rather than murder. Also, the first 50 pages of the book had been just Cameryn and her grandmother arguing about what she was going to do with her life after school which was not interesting at all. “No, that's because there are more interesting things to do."Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies" Carmeryn swallowed back her irritation. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.” (Ferguson 35) As the book went on the plot became more engaged, but the first few chapters were boring and uneventful. After all of Cameryn’s investigating, she finally caught the murder, which no one would expect. Nobody believed her at first because the killer ended up being Dr. Jewel a psychic who was “helping” with the case. Finally, she got evidence to prove he was the killer and Dr. Jewel was arrested. “The admission sent a cold shock through her,likes wave of ice water.So there would be no more deception,no veneer of truth covering the lie. Dr.Jewel had just admitted he was the Christopher Killer.” (Ferguson 240) The Christopher Killer is just an okay book because it lacked much energy, was slow, but it had an exciting ending. The book would be better if the first few chapters had a little bit more importance because in my opinion

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