Sister Love and Other Crime Stories
John Escott
Oxford Bookworms LibraryLevel 1
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by John Escott.
Some sisters are good friends, some are not. Sometimes there is more hate in a family than there is love. Karin is beautiful and has lots of men friends, but she can be very unkind to her sister Marcia. Perhaps when they were small, there was love between them, but that was a long time ago. They say that everybody has one crime in them. Perhaps they only take an umbrella that does not belong to them. Perhaps they steal from a shop, perhaps they get angry and hit someone, perhaps they kill…
John Escott
SISTER LOVE and Other Crime Stories
SISTER LOVE and Other Crime Stories
Marcia lives with her father and her sister, Karin. She does not have a job. Her father is ill and needs someone with him all the time. So Marcia stays at home. It is not an easy life, and Karin does not help. Is it a crime to hate your sister?
Joey does not have a sister, and he does not have a job. So how does he live, where does he get his money from? From crime. Small crimes at first, but they get bigger, and bigger. Joey doesn’t call it crime, he calls it luck – Joey’s luck. But everybody knows that luck does not last for ever …
Rosa has a job, but she does not make much money. So on Monday evenings she does something different – she asks people for �hush money’. In other words, she sells her silence. But silence about what? And who is worse, the person who sells the silence, or the person who buys the silence?
Three different crimes, three different criminals …
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