The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

This is a very original, wonderful and enlightening book. In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time , the reader is inside the mind of a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome as he is trying to find out who killed his neighbour's dog and ends up unveiling some hidden truths in the process.

Synopsis

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.