11th April 2010 | 1 Comment
House Rules is about Jacob Hunt, a teenage boy with Asperger’s Syndrome. He’s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject – in his case, forensic analysis. He’s always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police [...]
Tags: Asperger's syndrome, autistic youth, forensic sciences, murder investigation
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10th April 2010 | 1 Comment
Edgar Award Winning author Tana French’s In the Woods and The Likeness are smartly-written crime novels with a good dose of psychological thriller mixed in. Both are set in Ireland, where the author took some license with her fiction and created a homicide squad. The first book is told from the perspective of Detective Rob [...]
Tags: crimes against children, detectives, murder investigation, psychological fiction
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7th April 2010 | 0 Comments
Warning: The following post contains many spoilers! Jodi Picoult’s The Pact, like her other novels, takes an interesting and often heart wrenching look at a controversial issue–in the case of this particular novel, the topic: teen suicide. Picoult developed the idea for this book after working as a teacher with a suicidal student, and later [...]
Tags: high schools, interpersonal relations, murder investigation, romance, suicide, teenage pregnancy
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