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Who Killed Christopher Goodman?: Based on a True Crime
by Allan Wolf
While the title implies a classic murder mystery, "Who Killed Christopher Goodman?" is not about discovering the person responsible for his death. Instead, the novel's multiple POVs include the murderer's but mostly all those who may have nudged circumstances one way or another that led to the sequence of events. It is more a rumination on the web of interaction we all have with each other, and readers who expect grisly plot twists will find themselves disappointed in a story that is relatively straightforward and tense only in the way teenage pranks backfiring can be.
That said, I thought that the many characters worked overall. They all had their own voices, with Doc's the most rounded out, Squib's the most engaging, and Leonard's the most distinct as his passages take on a spoken word quality. The plot jumping from after, to before, to after again serves the purpose of seeing how the characters come to brush up against their involvement with Christopher on his last night.
That said, I thought that the many characters worked overall. They all had their own voices, with Doc's the most rounded out, Squib's the most engaging, and Leonard's the most distinct as his passages take on a spoken word quality. The plot jumping from after, to before, to after again serves the purpose of seeing how the characters come to brush up against their involvement with Christopher on his last night.