But in the end, someone's secret comes to light with devastating consequences. All the members of this loosely connected community harbor secrets they do not want to be revealed. Suspects include Stacy Kearney (the ""Fallen Queen type""), granddaughter of the island's wealthiest man, who is allegedly pregnant, and Stacy's ex-boyfriend Mark Stern, who had just started dating Casey. Through Kurt's first-person narrative, Plum-Ucci (The Body of Christopher Creed) addresses peer pressure and the chasm between social strata in this beachside town. Kurt finds a quiet corner of the police station where he can overhear the cops' interrogations of the high school students who were at the party, each teen's answers throwing suspicion in a new direction. What saves this from being formulaic and sappy are the strong characterizations and vivid settings. Someone brought a gun to the party several partygoers heard the sound of a shot, and Casey vanished from the end of the pier-no trace of blood, no body. Plum-Ucci seems to be establishing a pattern: disaffected teen with a mysterious past moves into a cliquish, closed community and shows them the errors of their superficial ways.
Printz Award Honor Book, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an IRA-CBC Children's Choice, and a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Mystery. Her first novel, The Body of Christopher Creed, was a Michael L. As the book opens, 17-year-old narrator Kurt Carmody recounts his sister's disappearance from a dune party, where she was last seen on the abandoned pier on one of New Jersey's barrier islands. Carol Plum-Ucci has been widely praised for capturing the heart and voice of teens while seamlessly combining reality with the supernatural.
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