The Lovely Bones - Summary

The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold, is a very disturbing but intriguing story. A young girl named Susie Salmon gets raped and murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey which is discussed off the bat in the first chapter. The book is told in the perspective of Susie. Throughout the story Susie reflects on her life and watches over her family and her murderer Mr. Harvey and how he covers his tracks. Susie's father suspects that Mr. Harvey did kill his daughter. He reports it to the police but they didn't have any hard evidence that convinced him that he was the murderer. Susie's family starts to get tared apart. As the father gets more obsessed on proving Mr. Harvey to be the killer Susie's mother slowly drifts away and cheats on him with one of the detectives named Len. She later leaves him giving him all this guilt on him about his daughters death and his wife leaving. In the end Mr. Harvey in the act of trying to get another girl to murder an icicle falls and kills him.