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Susie's Death
Susie was coming home from school when her neighbor Mr. Harvey kills her with the most perfect murder, almost the unsolvable. -
Susie's memorial
Today was the day of Susie's memorial. Almost all of Susie's teachers come: her family, friends, and people who didn't even know her well, came too. For Susie's dad, it wasn't over. Jack feels there is still hope and that she will come back to them as a family. -
The First Summer After Her Death
Lindsey goes to the Gifted Sympoium, because she is very "gifted". Susie watches her from heaven and yearning to be back to with her sister and help her as she suffers. The rest of the summer, there was nop movement in her case. It was as if the evidence was not going to take the case any farther, and Susie's father was still at unrest. -
Jack Salmon's incident.
This night Detective Len came to tell Jack not to worry about Mr. Harvey and to stop bothering him, because he was not a suspect. Len was wrong, and Jack knew it. Jack trusted his beliefs, he knew in his heart that he must kill Mr. Harvey quietly just like how he had killed Susie. -
Jack Salmon's incident
Early in the morning, Jack saw Mr. Harvey leave his house and enter the corn field where Susie had been killed. Jack followed him and had a baseball bat, as choice of weapon. Little did Jack know, two teenagers were also in there. Jack got in a tussle with them instead of Mr. Harvey. Jack went to the hospital and had knee surgery for repeatedly being beat with the bat he had brought along -
Susie's Mother leaves
This was the two year memorial of Susie's death. Her mother just couldn't be there anymore, she needed to restart, so she left in the night and ran away to California. She would send postcards and letters to her children Buck and Lindsey but she did not come back for almost eight years. -
The Turning Point of the Story.
Lindsey breaks into Mr. Harvey's house and finds evidence that can and will put him in jail for murdering Susie and about 13 others. She brought the evidence to Detective Len, but he assumed Mr. Harvey would press charges for breaking and entering. Instead he didn't. He left in the night and no one ever seen him again. After that they did find evidence that he in fact had killed her, but he was no where to be found -
Jack has a heart attack & Susie's mother coming home
Susie's father has grown in age and also in missing her dearly. Years has past from her death, but they still keep her in their hearts. Jack is emitted to the hospital and is very weak. Lindsey and Buckley haven't seen her in almost a decade, and have mixed feelings about her now. Jack, on the other hand, is very pleased to have his wife back. -
The Day Susie came back
Susie is always watching from her heaven and she sees the opportunity and accidently takes it. As her old friend Ruth and her high school sweetheart, Ray arrive at a sinkhole(unaware that is where her body is), to check it out before it gets closed up, Ruth blacks out and Susie gets a huge gift and is allowed into Ruth's body but is herself. Her and Ray get to say and do the things they only dreamed of. (It is a very romantic part of the book(: ) -
The Day Susie goes to heaven
This is an unndeterminded day, but shortly after her arrival back to earth in Ruth's body and after her father is let out of the hospital. She is happy with want she sees on earth and lets them to their lives. Buck and Lindsey are happy(Lindsey is engaged and soon to have a baby girl), Jack is pleased to have his wife back home to him, and all is well in health. This concludes the story for the the characters in her life. -
Years after Susie is in heaven
Susie is taking a walk with her grandfather and she spots something, Mr. Harvey. He attempts one more time to capture a young spirited girl, but this time, he is shot down and rejected to the fullest. It is winter and he lost his balance, fell down into a reeven and died. An icicle hit him on the shoulder causing him to lose balance. An icicle was Susie's idea of the perfect murder weapon because the evidence melts away, and she was right.