Chapters 7 and 8 Summary and Analysis

In December of 1973, Ann is asked to participate in the murder case of a fifteen-year-old Seattle girl named Katherine Merry Devine. Katherine, who had last been seen alive while hitchhiking to Oregon, is found dead in a park in Olympia, Washington. Ann processes the notes from the case and launches an even busier schedule with the Seattle Police Department and the King County Sheriff's Department. Ann also begins a publishing career based on cases she has been privy to and the local authorities include Ann in further law enforcement training and seminars, all in an effort to help her writing career.

Ann's next case early in 1974 is the brutal attack of Joni Lenz, a college student at the University of Washington. Joni was brutally attacked in her room with a metal rod from her bed which was found shoved...