Synopses & Reviews
In 1973, it seemed to ten-year-old Marsha that everyone was committing crimes -- her father and Aunt Ada were committing adultery; her teenage brother and sister were smoking and shoplifting; her mother was flirting with the new next-door neighbor, Mr. Green. Even the President of the United States was acting like a crook. When the body of a neighbor boy is found in the woods just behind the shopping mall, Marsha becomes suspicious of Mr. Green and of the strangeness of his being a single man in a neighborhood of families.
Set in the Washington, D.C., suburbs during the summer of the Watergate break-ins, Berne's assured, skillful first novel is about what can happen when a child's accusation is the only lead in a case of sexual assault and murder.
Synopsis
A New York Times Notable Book. Set in the Washington, D.C., suburbs during the summer of the Watergate break-ins, Berne's assured, skillful first novel is about what can happen when a child's accusation is the only lead in a case of sexual assault and murder. A BOOK -OF-THE-MONTH CLUB and QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB selection.
About the Author
Suzanne Berne lives with her husband and their two daughters outside Boston and currently teaches in Havard University's English department. She has published fiction and essays in numerous magazines and been a frequent contributor to the New York Times. Her first novel, A Crime in the Neighborhoodwon Great Britian's Orange Prize and was also a New York TimesNotable Book, as well as a finalist for both the Los Angeles Timesand the Edgar Allan Poe first fiction awards.