House RulesPicoult writes with unassuming brilliance. Stephen King Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome. He's hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself to others and, like many children with Asperger's, Jacob has an obsessive focus on one subject in his case, forensic analysis. He's always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do and he's usually right.