Now this could be quite interesting

At least, that was my initial reaction:

Cammie McGovern’s EYE CONTACT, about the murder of a young girl in a

small town, the severely autistic boy who witnesses the crime, and the

boy’s mother who must draw out crucial details from her locked-in son

in order to solve the mystery, to Molly Stern at Viking, in a pre-empt,

by Eric Simonoff of Janklow & Nesbit.

So basically, it’s THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME meets SLEEPYHEAD…

McGovern, incidentally, wrote a previous novel called THE ART OF SEEING (Scribner, 2002) about a tumultuous bond between sisters that sounds very intriguing as well — and not just because of who her actual sister is…