THE GIRL IN CABIN 13 BY AJ RIVERS (OUTLINE)

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Cabin 13
 
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Emma is questioned by the local cop about the dead body on her porch. At the end of the chapter, she asked to be brought to the local bar, teddies.
 
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Emma goes to teddies. She meets Jake and they have a connection. We sense he has a secret. In a monologue tells us that her boyfriend, Greg, is still missing. There’s a dust up with the local cops.
 
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Jake gives Emma a ride home. She plays dumb when he brings up the disappearances. He says he’ll tell her everything tomorrow at breakfast.
 
Most of breakfast, they flirt. Then in prose, the author describes that she didn’t learn anything new from Jake about the disappearances, but it was good to get an insight into the suffering of the people in town.
 
 
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Emma talked about how she’s been getting along with Jake every day since she got to town. She says she talk to the mother of a victim and the mother said that the killing didn’t make sense. There’s a fight in the park between one man who thinks another man killed his daughter.
 
Then Emma goes to one of the crime scenes. She gives a recap on what happened. Victim is found near train tracks. Explain that one victim was found a few feet over the state line into North Carolina from Virginia and that’s why she is there as the FBI.
 
Back home that night Emma is talking to her best friend on the phone. They are gossiping about Jake. Then Jake shows up with dinner for her.
 
Note: this is basically a romance so far
 
 
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Jake’s dad was dug up from his grave. Jake and Emma go check it out. The cops or something like that I deserve this or it shouldn’t be a surprise or something.
 
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Emma takes care of Jake at Home. They talk about Jake’s family. She brings up the thing the cops out about Jake’s dad not being trustworthy or whatever. Jake says people in this town blame him for stuff that happened a long time ago and they shouldn’t.
 
 
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Emma discusses the desecration of the grave with her friend and tries to make sense of it. Is there a connection between this desecration, and the other crimes in town? Emma returns to the scene of the crime. She finds a creepy dog these tied to a tree. Decides not to follow a mysterious path because he has no service. Cliffhanger: the chief left a note on her door, called her to the station.
 
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The chief further questions, Emma, about what happened with the body on her porch. She doesn’t give them any information about the note. I’m over here is the cops discussing Jake and follows them to his bar. Cliffhanger: Jake’s about to be questioned by the police.
 
Note: in the previous chapter, the chief asked M if she had a connection to Florida. She denied it.
 
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Flashback scene. And impressionist memory of a Florida waterpark. Introduces her dad before he disappeared, I think. Creates a sense of intrigue and mystery, even though it’s mostly garbage.
 
Builds on Main mystery by confirming that she lied about whether or not she knew anyone in Florida.
 
Note: structured kind of like a sitcom. The a story mystery takes up most scenes. Then there’s the best story of Jake’s dad‘s grave. Then there’s the sea story, which is the mystery surrounding her childhood and the disappearance of her family. Their interwoven in a way that demonstrates a connection, but only hints at it. Also, the B story is directly related to her love interest so those scenes also further the romantic thread, which is kind of a story all its own.
 
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The cops question Jake about his dad’s disappearance. Jake recognizes in their faces that they have found the bones. Take Russia’s out to some old man’s house where the bones are. Emma has to restrain him and pull him away.
 
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Emma and Jake discuss Jake’s dad’s death. Jake thinks the guy who took up the bones also murder his dad. We got backstory on how Jake’s dad took down a lot of people in town with his business ethics because they were money launderers. They kiss.
 
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A flashback chapter. Discusses Emma’s childhood. Reveals that Emma’s murder mother was murdered gives ominous feeling.
 
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Emma has problems with her house. The guy comes over to fix it. She finds out that although the house was supposedly abandoned an old lady named Wendy died there. Also found out someone stayed here six months ago, even though nobody told her that.
 
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Emma wants to go back to the hidden path but she can’t because she needs to lose Jake for that. So she goes to the police department and ask them about the guy who turned up that on her porch. It’s kind of weird because they don’t know she’s an agent, but she kind of acts like one. Not a big deal I guess.
 
Note: she doesn’t discuss this plan with anyone she just goes and does it. If the character is active an opportunistic, anything to turn to plot.
 
Emma goes to the hotel where Ron Murdoch stayed before he showed up dead on her porch. She watches the footage of him. Notices he arrived with no bags wearing the same clothes he died in. Makes up a silly excuse to get rid of a lady, and then takes pictures of the Registration Book.
 
Note: you can keep little investigative moments like this very simple, and they work.
 
Cliffhanger: shots ring out
 
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The chief shows up to investigate the shot fired. He and Emma go toe to toe. Neither understands why the other is there. Emma goes home to reviews the photos she took in the registration office Ron Murdoch had stayed there, but the address he gave us from the movie Field of dreams Steaks raising ending line: the chief was with that random woman last night, and there’s something suspicious about it…
 
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Emma talks to her friend, being. She’s back near the train tracks at night investigating the secret path. She reveals her theory that the chief of police is the killer. She hears something and gets scared. There’s a suspenseful sequence where she runs back to the cabin.
 
Cliffhanger: as she slipped inside, she sees a shadow swing into the woods.
 
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Emma secretly infiltrates the motel. She steals her registration book. She go somewhere and looks inside.
 
Cliffhanger: she implies that she did a good job finding the book. it has what she needs.
 
Note: this is another instance, where we don’t know what she’s doing or her plan, and that question is a big part of it pulls you through the scene.
 
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The registration book that contained Murdochs name also contains the name of one of the murdered girls (Cristela). While reviewing the information, Emma binds with a waitress who recognizes a location from the murdered girls, Instagram. It’s a bar down the road. Emma decides to go there.
 
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Detective goes to local bar to question the Chiefs secret girlfriend. She thinks the girlfriend lied about some stuff. Cliffhanger: shattered glass in the car. She discovers that someone shattered the light on the force that got her to safety last night. This is a direct threat.
 
Note: a lot of the suspense comes from it, the killer threatening her while she investigates. She’s not really learning too much information and investigation, but the quiet threats are growing.
 
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Jake invites her for dinner. He tells her the guy who desecrated his fathers grave was let go by the police. She knows too much about procedure and almost gives herself away. Finally, he insists on following her home in his car to make sure she gets back safe. Cliffhanger: they both discover a bunch of pictures strewn across the coffee table.
 
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The photos are the detectors stash of crime scene photos she got from the FBI. Jake is confused and freaked out. She doesn’t she’s a true crime fan. That buys her some trust. Penny spots the shake that she got another time investigation and she almost killed Scott.
 
 
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Emma visits call at his house. This is the guy the cops suspect dug up the grave. She cc too weak to do that. I need denies it anyway. He also keeps referencing something with Jake’s dad and he doesn’t want to talk about. I’m a strata no nerve – – Emma strikes a nerve with Kole. He signs the door in her face.
 
Emma goes to Jake’s dad‘s grave. The chief fines are there. She throws suspicion in his face. Jake shows up. Jake and the chief are both upset that Ayla is crying around.
 
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Emma and Jake share a heartfelt moment as Jake honors the anniversary of his wife’s passing. Emma tells Jake that she thinks the chief might be the killer, pretty much.
 
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Emma gets a call from her FBI partner. He found a picture of the dead cabin guy with her parents from Animal Kingdom in 1998. Neither of them understand what that means but it seems the man was following her. Then she calls Jake and says, how can you explain that you were at Animal Kingdom five years before it opened? This must be a reference to an earlier story he told and it shows a discrepancy. Is Jake the killer?
 
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Jake clears up the misunderstanding by the theme park. She goes to his house to wait for him. He doesn’t come home. She goes to the bar and turns on the lights and there is blood on her hands.
 
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Emma goes to the police station. The chief acts like he never knew about this murder. She goes to the bar of the chief. She looked and Jake’s book to see who he gave her the last ride to. The Paige has been ripped out. Cliffhanger Kole, and she confirmed that the chief had knocked up a previous victim.
 
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Emma’s FBI boss calls her. He wants to take her off the case. She gets two extra days, but if she fails it’s her badge. She goes back to question the chief about his affair. He tells her he had an alibi for Jake’s killing last night. It’s another woman he’s sleeping with.
 
 
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I’m not goes to the graveyard. She wonders why Jake’s dad and ex-wife are not buried with the rest of the family in the family plot. She goes home and talks to her FBI partner on the phone. She discover something in the laundry and tells him to get the team ready to Rush in.
 
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Emma remembers a bunch of stuff. Jake told her about his childhood. Her feet take her to an old cabin out in the woods. She thinks this is where he grew up with his grandmother. At the bottom of the stairs of a secret compartment, she finds a new door. She pushes it open and suddenly knows what happened to all the bodies.
 
Also, it smells.
 
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Jake shows up at the dungeon. She tries to escape but gets trapped in there with him. He kisses her.
 
 
What are the elements that make this book memorable?
The body on the doorstep
Giving people a ride home from the bar.
The scene of the people posed in the basement.
There are a couple of other twists that are good to I think, but I can’t remember them. I look back at the outline.
 
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Jake reveals his master plan. Emma realizes that building his trust in her back up, is going to be able to get her out of there.
 
20 out of 220 pages remain
 
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Jake explains why he did everything. Why he chose his victims and how. The backstory of his life growing up as a bastard child of love affair, etc.
 
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Emma escapes. Then he catches her. Then she escapes again when she leaves the house on fire. Then they fall off the roof together and everything goes dark.
 
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Emma is in the hospital. She learns about what happened to Jake. She gets caught up on what’s going on to wrap up the case. She learns that Jake’s family is coming into town.
 
She feels a little conflicted, because he was treated so poorly to become a murderer like this
 
Epilogue
Emma. Claire’s at the cabin in with her FBI partner. She reveals that he slipped her some information about her boyfriends disappearance as a little. Thank you about this case. She’s going to Main to look into it during her time off. Also, maybe Iowa?
 
 
 
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