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.
Lindsey begins watching Harvey’s house. Harvey is aware the family is watching him, but knows the police have no evidence on him. He begins following school groups at the park.
Lindsey breaks into Harvey’s house, looking for the evidence needed for the police to make an arrest. Susie is watching and Lindsey feels her presence. Harvey’s house is similar in lay-out to the Salmon house, but is sparsely furnished. Lindsey sees Susie running and chases her through the house. Susie starts calling outthe names of Harvey’s many victims.
Susie follows Lindsey upstairs. Harvey enters the house as Lindsey finds a drawing of the dug-out built by Harvey. She rips the drawing from the book. Harvey is in the kitchen when he hears a board creak upstairs. He runs upstairs and Lindsey dives out the window. She is unhurt and runs away. Harvey sees Lindsey from the back of her soccer jersey as she was running away.
Lindsey gives the drawing to Jack. Abigail quickly leaves quickly, horrified of the thought of what her daughter just did. Lindsey tells Jack she thinks Harvey saw her.
Susie meets Flora, another little girl killed by Harvey. She also meets Harvey’s other victims and learns their stories.
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