A Crime in the Neighborhood, Suzanne Berne
A Crime in the Neighborhood, Suzanne Berne
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A Crime in the Neighborhood

Author: Suzanne Berne

Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan

Unabridged: 7 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/08/2011

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

Reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird, A Crime in the Neighborhood is the story of a young girl's coming of age during a turbulent time in American history. Living in a quiet suburb of Washington, D.C., Marsha is nine years old in the summer of 1973. While the nation's attention is focused on the breaking Watergate scandal, her quiet neighborhood is going through its own upheaval. Looking back as an adult, she remembers it as a time when her father's abandonment of his family becomes entwined with the arrival of a new neighbor and the death of a boy who lives down the street. Deeply disillusioned by the changes in her life, Marsha takes it upon herself to find the boy's murderer, which sets off a chain of tragic events. A poignant and startling novel, A Crime in the Neighborhood expertly shows what can happen when fear and suspicion gain control of a community's better judgement.

About Suzanne Berne

Suzanne Berne is the author of?four previous novels: The Dogs of Littlefield;?The Ghost at the Table;?A Perfect Arrangement; and?A Crime in the Neighborhood, winner of Great Britain’s Orange Prize. She lives outside of Boston with her husband.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah

In the summer of 1972, the suburban neighborhood of Spring Hill is rocked by a hideous crime, one that Bernes masterfully introduces in the opening pages of A Crime in the Neighborhood. What follows is a tense narrative delivered with such clarity and unnerving sense of reality that one easily forge......more

Goodreads review by Robert

I follow three literary prizes - The Man Booker, The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and The Baileys Women's Prize. Man Booker - usually the winners are bona fide post modern classics BUT usually I tend to prefer the ones that don't win the actual prize. Pulitzer - The winning novel is always good - the p......more

In high school I was in a class called Creative Writing. The teacher assigned students to write a ten-page descriptive essay about a particular subject periodically, such as describing the beginning of autumn, or about a domestic scene of preparing and eating food in a kitchen. The teacher wanted de......more