Cat and Mouse Setting & Symbolism

Cat and Mouse Objects/Places

Cross Home

Cross and his family are attacked inside his home the night after Gary Soneji is killed.

Piano

The Cross family has a piano on their front porch that Nana taught Alex to play when he was young.

Notes from Mr. Smith

Mr. Smith sends e-mail messages to Pierce after every killing in order to let him know where the body is.

Cross's Notes

Thomas Pierce uses Cross's notes to track down Simon Cronklin, making him a better detective in his mind than Alex.

Cross's Blood

Cross's blood is found at the Union Station crime scene. The blood turns out to be stolen blood from a blood bank where Cross made a donation.

Train Set

As a child, Gary stole his stepbrother's train set and buried it in the yard. Thomas Pierce finds this train set years later in the same grave as some of Soneji's earliest victims.

Sojourner Truth School

The Sojourner Truth School is a school in Washington D.C. where Alex...
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