a mystery novel by Mark Haddon
published May 2003
“I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”
Christopher Boone is a 15 year old autistic kid who likes Sherlock Holmes and mathematics. One day he finds the neighbor’s dog dead with a garden fork sticking out of its body. He sees the entire event as a mystery to solve so he embarks on a journey to find out who’s behind the murder.