The Lovely Bones is a novel which tells the story of Susie Salmon, a fourteen-year-old girl murdered in the early 1970s. After her death, Susie watches her loved ones cope with their loss from Heaven, witnessing the detectives try and fail to discover her murderer, her parents marriage fall apart, and her siblings and classmates grow up and move on. Though Susie will never be able to rejoin the living, watching over them enables her, and those she left behind, to eventually find peace.
Mr. Harvey carries Susie’s body back to his house and puts her body in the garage. A realtor later tells prospective buyers Susie’s blood stain is an oil stain.
Susie is not Mr. Harvey’s first victim. He throws her body into a sinkhole in the neighborhood. Her body is hidden in a metal safe.
Mr. Harvey keeps Susie’s charm bracelet, but later throws it into an area that is being made into a lake. He keeps her favorite charm, a Pennsylvania keystone.
Susie’s father sees Mr. Harvey building a mat tent. He helps Mr. Harvey build the new tent. Susie tries to get her father’s attention, and he begins to wonder about Mr. Harvey. He asks Harvey if he knows something and Harvey tells him that he doesn't and that he cannot help him.
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