Believing Harvey is returning to destroy evidence, Jack runs out to confront him, armed with a baseball bat. That night, Jack peers out of his den window and sees a flashlight in the cornfield. Later, Detective Len Fenerman tells the Salmons that the police have exhausted all leads and are dropping the investigation.
Meanwhile, another of Susie's classmates, Ray Singh, who had a crush on Susie in school, develops a friendship with Ruth, drawn together by their connection with Susie.
Jack's surviving daughter, Lindsey, eventually shares this sentiment. Susie's father, Jack, gradually suspects Harvey. The police talk to Harvey, finding him odd but not suspicious. The Salmon family initially refuses to believe that Susie is dead, until a neighbor's dog finds Susie's elbow. Susie's spirit flees toward her personal Heaven, and in doing so, rushes past her classmate, social outcast Ruth Connors, who can see Susie's ghostly spirit. Once she climbs into the hideout, he rapes and murders her, then dismembers her body and puts her remains in a safe that he dumps in a sinkhole, along with throwing her charm bracelet into a pond. George Harvey, her 36-year-old neighbor, a bachelor who builds doll houses for a living, persuades her to look at an underground kid's hideout he constructed in the field. On December 6, 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon takes her usual shortcut home from her school through a cornfield in Norristown, Pennsylvania. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life. The events my death brought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. The novel's title is taken from a quotation at the story's conclusion, when Susie ponders her friends' and family's newfound strength after her death:
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