Sister Love and Other Crime Stories

by John Escott

Some sisters are good friends, some are not. Somtimes 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...

Genres: Crime

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

John Escott started by writing children's books and comic scripts, but now writes and adapts books for students of all ages. He especially enjoys writing crime and mystery thrillers, and is a member of the British Crime Writers Association.

With Oxford University Press John has published London for the Oxford Bookworms Factfile series; Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery, Star Reporter, Girl on a Motorbike, The Fly and Other Horror Stories, and The Scarlet Letter for the Oxford Bookworms Library series; The Magician, Time for a Robbery, Star for a day, Tomorrow's Girl, and The Man with Three NAMEs for the Hotshot Puzzles series; and A Pretty Face for the Dominoes series.

Reviews

[Narges Amooei · Rating 4 out of 5]

من از این مجموعه کتاب‌ها برای گسترش دامنه لغاتم استفاده می‌کنم و خب این چون استِیج ۱ هست، لغات زیاد جدید یا سختی نداره و برای دست‌گرمی‌ه بیشتر.
ولی از نظر داستانی، داستان‌های دوم و سوم خیلی جالب بودن و پایان دل‌خنک‌کنی داشتن:))

[Reham Elkomy · Rating 1 out of 5]

17/7/2025

[Yoojeung · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was really short, and it was book that i could understand very easily. It was really scary that even though it is one family, they have big jealousy each other, and they even hate each other even they have same parents, same sir name...etc

[Blackedpoison · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing!!!!!!

[かりん · Rating 4 out of 5]

1. Oxford, level 1
2. 11/16 25min, 11/19 25min, 11/20 30min
3. sister, father, church, roof, wine, horn, sunoil
4. Do you have any siblings? What do you think about them or do you like them?
--- Yes, I have an older sister. When I was a child, I did not like her and we always quarreled each other. However, now we live separately and we just meet sometimes, so we do not quarrel so much. Actually we are good sisters now.
5. When I read the first sentence of this book, I was really surprised. Because I found same name as me on books for the first time, in addition the girl who named 'Karin' was a younger sister same as me! In this book, she is not a good girl, but she is beautiful and slim, so I envy her. This book has three stories, but I was interested in this "Karin's" story the best.


I'm sorry for late to write this review.

[ゆきてぃ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oxford Readers, level 1.
Time 5/27= 45min. 5/28=10min. 5/29=30min. total=85min.

Seven word summary / older sister, younger sister, boyfriend, jealousy, secret, suntan oil, death

Q. If you fall in love with your sister’s boyfriend, what would you do?
A. If I fell in love my sister’s boyfriend, I tell her the truth. Because my sister and I are good friend, I don’t have a secret. If I tell my sister a lie, she can find my lie soon.

This story was about “sisters”. I have 2 younger sisters. Because sometimes I was jealous of my sisters, I can understand a heroine’s feeling, but I love my sisters.
This book is a collection of short stories. Other stories were interesting too.

[Phet Dolasin · Rating 5 out of 5]

For me this book is very a good book. The story is called “ Sister love and other crime stories” It’s about sister and some sisters are good and bad. I don't like her sister like that because she took a man of her sister love. I hate when sisters are jealous each other. This book is very short. I want to read more because it's very interesting. I read this book during English class in Panyathip International School in 10 minutes and sometimes 20 minutes. The main characters are two sisters, father and her sister's boyfriend. And I want to suggest you to read it because it's a very very good book!

[Sayaka · Rating 4 out of 5]

1 oxford level 1

2 5/14=60minutes

3 sister, father, good-looking, boyfriend, roof, oil, death

4 a)The woman don't have work and good-looking. On the other hand, her younger sister is beautiful and has work and a lot of men friends, but she isn't kind to her older sister.
b) I don't like yonger sister because she has a lot of things like work and good-looking, however, she behave badly to her elder sister.

5 The yonger sister has jealousy to her elder sister. I don't know why but I can understand why because I have two elder sisters. I am often jealous of them. You can read the other two stories in this book and they were interesting.

[Shizuka · Rating 3 out of 5]

Oxford Readers, level 1.
Time: 100minutes
Seven word summary: older sister, younger sister, boyfriend, jealousy, secret, suntan oil, death

Q. Do you have any sisters or brothers? If you do, do you have a good relationship with them?
A. Yea I do. I have 3 younger sisters in my family. We all have different types of personality but everyone likes each other.

I didn't like this girls because they were like just a rival in love. I wanted Younger sister in this story to watched and pray older sister's love fulfilled.
However what I thought most was family was most important for me.

[Hiroki Yasui · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sister love
10/22 =90minutes

Sisters, husband, suntan oil, crime, pub, drunker, bunish

"Down...down...down... Before she hit the ground, she knew. Slippery...suntan oil...Marcia... "

As often happens on a TV drama, two sisters love the same man and they fight or quarrel about their lover. This story is a kind of that. The main charactor has a younger sister. I also have a younger brother, but I don't imagine the case that we fight about the love. Because we really talk about that. It's unusual. I think lt's because we are brothers. However, if we are sister, it can be happend ?

[Aki Kawachi]

1. John Escott, level1

2. 5/23 30min 5/24 50min

3. Sister
Good looks
Suntan oil
Lucky
Oil lamp
Accident
Fake

4. There are 3 different stories. About sister, stealing money, and car accident. They are all crimes story.

5. I like first story which is a sister story. Youngest sister doesn't want her older sister to be happy and she just want him because older love him. I feel very angry when I read this story. But finally younger sister slipped away because older sister painted the floor with sun oil. I felt refreshed;)

[Yuki Kato · Rating 3 out of 5]

1. Oxford / level1

2. 80minutes

3. sister, crime, love, father, beautiful, hate, picking pockets

4. I dislike the passage that Marcia find Howard and Karin at the roof gerden. Karin did't help her father, kissed Howard and made a fool of her sister, so I thought Karin has a bad character and terrible. Marcia is poor. Marcia Karin are sister but their character and action are very different.

5. The book is made up 3 stories. Especially, I like "Sister love" the best because it is the most interesting and easy to understand. All story is short, so this book is easy to read.

[Akari Shimokawa · Rating 4 out of 5]

1. Oxford, stage 1
2. 07/27/2016; 80 minutes
3. sister; family; love; hate; jealousy; differencies; interesting
4. Two girls (sisters) story. One is a beautiful and has a lot of friends, but the other is antithesis. There was love a long time ago.
5. I have read this book before and firstly, I am interested in the name of this book because it shows that in this book there are sisters story. I like it because I also have a older sister. This situation is totally different from me because I really love my sister and my family. I could't understand their thought.

[Misato Kuroiwa · Rating 3 out of 5]

1 John Escott OXFORD Level 1
2 85 minutes
3 love jelousy sister crime secret garage sanoil
4 Do you have sisters? Yes, I do.
5 This story made me shocked. I felt love changed a person. I don't like her sister like that because she took a man from her older sister without loving him. I don't want to be in situation like this with my sister. I want to keep getting along with my sister.

[Abdulkadir Kaya]

amk oku diyom okumuyor

[Men · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh. that is good stories but it is short. I want to read more. the result isn't good (I think). that mean is real for life.

[Rathana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Like

[Cynthia · Rating 4 out of 5]

this is a decent crime book. I love the title story. the relationship between the character is depicted with enough complexity and the ending is quite violent and shocking to me.

[宇宸 張]

good