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4.1/5 Pages 285 Genre Crime Fiction | 3.4/5 Language English Originally published 6 January 1997 Page count 285 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Awards Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Nominations Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author Similar Suzanne Berne books, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction winners, Fiction books |
A Crime in the Neighborhood is a novel by Suzanne Berne. It won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 1999. Told through the eyes of a ten-year-old girl, the book chronicles a child's murder in a sleepy suburb of Washington, D.C. against the backdrop of the unfolding Watergate scandal.
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