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A Crime in the Neighborhood
1997 novel by Suzanne Berne
A Crime in the Neighborhood is the debut novel by Suzanne Berne. It won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 1999.[1] The story is told through the eyes of a ten-year-old girl, Marsha, and chronicles the murder of a young boy in a sleepy suburb of Washington, D.C. against the backdrop of the unfolding Watergate scandal in the spring and summer of 1972.