A Crime in the Neighborhood
Suzanne Berne · b. 1961 · United States
Why it matters
A ten-year-old girl becomes wrongly convinced her odd neighbor murdered a local boy, during the Washington-suburb summer that Watergate dominated the news. A quietly devastating debut about a child's certainty and the real damage it does.
At a glance
psychological novelpolitical novel
Difficulty 4/10medium pace256 pagesPlain, retrospective child's-eye narration is easy to follow despite its unsettling implications.
