House Rules

Jacob Hunt, a brilliant teenager with Asperger's syndrome, has an encyclopedic knowledge of forensic science and an uncanny ability to read crime scenes—even as he struggles to read the people around him. When a shocking murder strikes his small hometown, Jacob becomes entangled in the investigation in ways that cast suspicion on him. Jodi Picoult explores the devastating consequences when a young man's extraordinary gift for understanding evidence becomes evidence against him.