The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Christopher John Francis Boone knows every country and capital in the world and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates better to animals than people, dislikes being touched, and sees the world through the lens of logic and order. Christopher is autistic, and the unpredictability of everyday life often overwhelms him—until the night he discovers his neighbor’s dog, Wellington, dead in the yard, stabbed with a garden fork. And he’s the one blamed.

Determined to solve the mystery, Christopher channels his hero, Sherlock Holmes, and launches an investigation. But what begins as a search for a dog’s killer soon unravels deeper secrets—ones that force him to navigate the emotional chaos of his parents’ fractured relationship and confront truths he never expected.