Jacob Hunt is a teenager 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 -- forensic analysis. He's always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and then telling the cops what they need to do -- and he's usually right.

But when his tutor is found dead, and the police come to question Jacob, all the behaviors of Asperger's -- not looking someone in the eye, stimulatory tics and twitches -- looks a lot like guilt to law enforcement officials. So it's little wonder that Jacob finds himself accused of murder.