Chapter Summaries
Chapters 1-4
Pip, a senior in high school, is talking to many people she thinks can help her get information for her capstone project about an old, dismissed murder case by the public. Well, she is interviewing people for help with her project she is getting many mixed opinions on her project, some of which may not be accurate.
Chapters 5-8
Pip and Ravi, one of the people who Pip interviewed, also known as Sal Singh’s brother (the accused murderer), got to know each other through the project. This led to some ups, downs, and amazing discoveries as teammates and friends.
Chapters 9-12
Pip and some of her friends are going on a camping trip. During the trip, one night Pip spots a figure staring at them through the trees, leading to a lot of action around this “figure”, including a scary note found in Pip’s sleeping bag, but she didn't think much of it. Pip also got in contact with Andie Bell’s, the girl who got murdered by Sal Singh, old best friends Chloe and Emma, for information about Andie.
Chapters 13-16
Pip found out about a girl named Natalie(Nat) who Andie Bell used to bully really badly, and learned a lot from Nat even though she didn’t have the best reaction to Pip coming to her door. Pip discovered a lot about Andie’s true relationship/energy with people in her life, and also about a drug dealer in town that sold to Andie.
Chapters 17-20
Pip wanted to know more about this drug dealer, so she got herself invited to a high school party where A LOT of drugs are sold, and at the party she found out the main drug dealer in their town was an older man named Howie Bower, who did some very questionable things. After the party, she then found him in an alleyway selling, she then ended up following him back to his house and having a very interesting interview with him about everything.
Chapters 21-24
Pip and Ravi found out about a secret second phone from Howie Bowers that Andie had for drug dealing. They ended up sneaking into Andie’s old bedroom and almost got caught. She did this to look for the phone but didn’t find anything but her planner, which gave her a lot of information. From this planner, she discovered that Andie met someone at a motel every once in a while, and this person was Max Hastings. And in the mix of all this, she got another scary, threatening message from an unknown number.
Chapters 25-28
Pip broke into Naomi’s Facebook account to look at some of Max’s old pictures, but then she saw it, a picture from the night Andie went missing after Sal was known to have left by, which was the time of the picture. Everyone in the group was in the picture, but who was taking the picture was the big question, it had to be Sal. Ravi and Pip went to Max and Naomi to ask them about this, they found out a lot about it all and that they lied to the police. With all the new times, there was no possibility of Sal having time to murder Andie, he was innocent.
Chapters 29-32
Pip got/found yet more scary notes from the unknown person in her own room(meaning someone broke in) and one in her school locker, leading Pip to be even more suspicious and scared about this all, but still did not say anything. Pip then continued with her research on Andie’s second phone. She asked Becca, Andie’s sister, who could have possibly been in Andie’s home after she went missing, the only person that lined up with her list was Daniel Da Silva, leading to more intense research on him.
Chapters 33-36
Pip was on a walk with Barney one night, and then randomly he was gone. He was lost. They spent all night and the whole next day looking for him, but no luck. Then she got another message from the unknown number, they had her dog. The only way for her to get Barney back was to destroy her research, so she did it immediately, anything for Barney, but when she did everything they asked, no Barney she did it all for nothing. The next morning she found out Barney was dead, her dog was now gone, her research was gone, her motivation was gone. She made a decision she was done with her project.
Chapters 37-40
Somehow Ravi convinced Pip to keep going and restart her project, and thankfully Pip always emailed all her stuff to her just in case she lost it, so they could now restart even though it would be hard she did it. When Pip was looking in the Ward's home, she found out a lot, and the most important, the printed threat note that was in her locker, the print file, was under Mr. Ward’s name. And to what Pip knows, it was Mr. Ward, it was Mr. Ward he was the killer, the Unknown number, the person who killed her dog, Andie Bell, Sal Singh, she never saw it coming.
Chapters 41-44
Pip and Ravi are suspicious of where Mr. Ward(aka the killer)truly goes 3 times a week, so they start tracking him. It turns out he was visiting an old home he used to live in, so she went to check it out and find out why he went there so often. She confronted him and got all the information out of him and finally told the police, getting him captured in the end. Apparently, Andie Bell supposedly never died and was in the attic of the home and had been there for a long time.
Chapters 44-48
The news of this all was hitting everyone really hard, for some in good ways and for others bad. For the Singhs, they came over to thank Pip deeply for all she did. Pip made a big discovery there was another murder in Fairview, the one who killed the real Andie Bell. Pip was determined to find them, but she figured out it was the last person who was with Andie after she left the Ward’s, Becca Bell. She went to Becca’s. She was confused, but then Pip got drowsy. Becca drugged her. Becca started to do bad things to her, but just in time, there he was to save her, Ravi.