In this, the third Aaron Tucker mystery, Aaron, fresh from a trip to Hollywood to "take meetings" on his screenplay, finds himself dragged kicking and screaming once again into investigating a murder, this time of a man in a nearby town shot while walking his dog at night. The young man accused of the crime has Asperger's Syndrome, the same autism-related disorder that Aaron's son Ethan has had since birth. Aaron is hip-deep in the investigation when he's assaulted by visiting Visigoths - no, wait, that's just his wife Abby's brother and his family, come to visit for a week. But then a local mobster becomes aware of Aaron's poking around in the killing, and wants him to stop. It's going to be an especially interesting holiday season for New Jersey's funniest height-challenged amateur sleuth.
"Aaron Tucker may not be the best provider in the world - few freelance writers are - but he does have plenty of time to play detective (A Farewell to Legs, 2003) and, more importantly, to be there for his son, Ethan, who suffers from Asperger syndrome (AS). This time Aaron is asked by a trusted friend, Lori, founder of an AS support group, to determine whether a kid named Justin Fowler really kil
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"In Cohen's third Aaron Tucker whodunit (after 2003's A Farewell to Legs), the aspiring New Jersey screenwriter and occasional freelance journalist again puts on his sleuthing hat after a young man with Asperger's syndrome is arrested for a senseless murder. Despite damning evidence, including the accused's confession and possession of the murder weapon, Tucker, who has an autistic son, finds the
