The Lovely Bones Study Guide

In the summer of 1975, Abigail leaves for her father’s cabin in New Hampshire. Neighbors begin bringing food to the Salmon house.

In the fall of 1975, Grandma Lynn decides to move in with Jack and the kids. Abigail has been gone for four months.

Mr. Harvey has been gone for a year by December, 1975. No one has seen him.

Hal drives Lindsey to the police station, where she demands to be told what is going on in the investigation. Lindsey sees a red cloth on Len’s desk, which she recognizes as her mother’s. She asks Len why he has her mother’s scarf, and he tells her Abigail left it in his car. Lindsey asks why her mother was in his car, and she figures out her mother’s involvement with Len without being told. Hal comforts her.

Buckley builds a fort for Susie when he is seven. He reads comic books in the fort and keeps to himself.

In the fall of 1976, Len Fenerman re-examines the evidence collected years ago. He finds the coke can with Mr Harvey's finger prints as well as susie's prints .He realizes Jack had been right about Harvey all along, but he cannot find Harvey because there are no records of a man named George Harvey. Len tries to trace him through the dollhouses, but cannot get a lead. He realizes he let a murderer get away.

On September 10, 1976, a hunter finds Susie’s keystone charm. He also finds the bones of a child’s foot.

Abigail drives from New Hampshire to California. She wants to start over somewhere different. She starts working at a winery.

Ruth moves to New York City and Ray is a pre-med student at Penn.

Harvey has been living in various places along the East Coast, but frequently drives by the old neighborhood.

In December 1981, Len receives a phone call from Delaware regarding another murder. This murder has also been connected to a girl’s body found in 1976 in Connecticut.

Hal has been working with his biker friends to find George Harvey. He meets a man who says a man who built dollhouses killed his mother. Hal calls Len.