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The Significance Of Investigations In Natasha Preston's The Cabin

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Who Can Be Trusted?
A bunch of high schoolers heading to an isolated cabin for the weekend may not be the smartest idea. In Natasha Preston's novel, The Cabin, Mackenzie and her friends head to Blake and Josh´s cabin for the weekend. What they didn´t know is that they would leave in tears from the unsolved deaths of two of their friends. The title significance of The Cabin reveals the investigations among the suspects and the crime scene of the novel.
The title's significance reveals the investigations among Mackenzie in the novel. Mackenzie had been curious about who had killed her best friend and her best friend's boyfriend, which left her with having to find clues. “You´re looking for a murderer. What makes you think you'll find any clues …show more content…

Kyle, Megan, Blake, and Aaron all are key suspects in the murders at The Cabin. However, Mackenzie was friends with them and couldn't see one of them killing their friends. “I had to find evidence that pointed to an intruder. I couldn't accept the killer was one of my friends” (Preston 112). Mackenzie thought she knew her friends well enough to assume that they wouldn't kill each other and realized they needed more thorough evidence of a possible intruder. However, Mackenzie had no clue who Blake was before going to The Cabin. Blake is Josh’s brother that lives out of state but happened to be in town during the killings. The police and Mackenzie's friends saw Blake as a prime suspect. On top of being in town at the same time of the killings, he also was known to not have a good relationship with Josh. Mackenzie and Blake had met on the way to The Cabin and built a relationship there. After the killing, Mackenzie had so much trust in Blake that they both tried to find the killer. “Perhaps you're not the killer. Your past doesn't prove you murdered your brother and his girlfriend. Your police record did, however, make very interesting reading Blake” (Preston 173). Detective Wright had put the pieces together with Blake and understood that he was not the killer, but the rest of the department had a harder time trusting him due to his reputation from the past. Blake constantly got into …show more content…

At the start of the novel, Mackenzie and her friends went to go have fun at The Cabin for the weekend. The setting of The Cabin was in the woods, very peaceful, until the next morning. All the friends had thought it was a good idea to enjoy their lives and drink alcohol. The night was good and everyone went to bed. However, the next morning they all came to find Courtney and Josh dead in the Kitchen. “Courtney and Josh lay on the floor in a pool of crimson blood” (Preston 38). The police came that morning and set up the crime scene for it to be investigated further. Mackenzie was trying to think what had happened right before she went to bed and she had no memory of the incident. Later the next week, the police still did not have evidence or clues to lead to the killer, mostly due to how well the crime was covered up. “There had to be clues in that Cabin. You couldn't murder two people in such a violent and bloody way and not leave some sort of evidence behind” (Preston 102). The group of teens wanted to go back themselves to see if they could trace back the footsteps of last night and see the crime scene again. But, when they arrived the whole house had been taped off. As Mackenzie thought about it more, an isolated cabin is a very good spot to clandestinely kill two teens and get away with it, or at least for

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