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.
Jack begins walking the dog every morning in order to watch Harvey and look for evidence.
Harvey knows he is being watched by the police. He sets clocks to remind him to stay on schedule. He counts the items he has taken from each of his victims to calm him. Susie watches him and knows the story of each victim, but Harvey has forgotten the names.
Harvey has killed neighborhood pets and covered their bodies in quicklime and counts the bones. He does this to stop himself from killing children.
Len visits Jack to ask him to stop calling the station about Harvey. Abigail agrees with Len, and Jack realizes he doesn’t have her support.
One night, Jack follows a light to the cornfield, thinking it is Harvey. He brings a bat with him, intending to kill him. Clarissa, Susie’s best friend, is in the field waiting for her boyfriend. Jack attacks Clarissa, thinking she is Harvey. Brian, Clarissa’s boyfriend, knocks Jack out, saving Clarissa. Susie sees most things.
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