Deadlock

by Rowena Akinyemi (Retold by), Sara Paretsky

V. I. Warshawski, private investigator, Chicago, USA.

People imagine private detectives to be tired-lookig men in raincoats, but Vic is female.She's tough, beautiful, carries a gun, and goes on asking questions until she gets answers.

When her cousin Boom Boom dies in an accident, Vic is naturally upset. She wants to know how and why the accident happened, and she isn't stisfied by the answers she gets. Sho she goes on asking questions... and more people start to die.

Text adaptation by Rowena Akinyemi.


Stage 5 - Oxford Bookworms Library - Crime & Mystery.
Bookworms privide enjoyable reading in English at six language stages, and offer a wide range of fiction, both classic and mordern.

112 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2007

About the author

Rowena Akinyemi is British, and after many years in Africa, she now lives and works in Cambridge. She was worked in English Language Teaching for twenty years, in Africa and England, and has been writing ELT fiction for ten years. Love or money? Was her first story for the Oxford Bookworms Library, and she has now written several other stories for the series, including Remeber Miranda and The Witches of Pendle (both at Stage 1). She has also written books for children. One of her favourite pastimes is reading detective stories.

Reviews

[David Lai · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think that this book is a really good book because I can see that the details were very clear about everything and I also like the ending. This book was about a private detective's cousin died because of an accident but she doesn't think so. So she started to find out who killed his cousin. In the investigation, two more people died because of her investigation on who killed her cousin which is why I gave this book only 4 stars instead of one because this is the part that I don't really understand why did they die because the way they die is a bit stupid. Then finally he found out that the one who killed his cousin was a owner of many boats. The answer about the question why did the boat owner killed his brother was because his brother became a block on the road to success. The reason why I gave this book a 4 star is also because that instead of killing the owner, she reported to the police and let the police deal with it as long as he gets what he should get.

[ariakki · Rating 1 out of 5]

la verdad una verga
pero lo lei en 5min

[Josep · Rating 4 out of 5]

Increible, ha sido una buena lectura, y aunque no haya papredido mucho ( tema vocabulario y demas aspectos). Ha sido interesante como al final todo se resuelve con el culpable inesperado. Que ko me lo esperaba para nada la verdad. Buena lectura

[Zoe · Rating 4 out of 5]

' Tears shone in her bright eyes, but she gave a trembling smile. "Do I mind? Niels has been dead to me for many years. But once - it was different. Because of the man I once loved, I would have liked to see her mourn."

[lorenajajs · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 estrellas por el nombre Boom Boom

[Irene · Rating 3 out of 5]

Es un libro que tiene un inglés bastante facilito y al tenerlo, hace que no te pierdas en la lectura. Es una versión adaptada de el libro original Deadlock. Trata sobre una chica, Vic, que está investigando la muerte de su primo Booom Boom, un famoso jugador de Hockey. Ella intuye que no ha sido un accidente como todos quieren creer. Va descubriendo poco a poco como realmente no fue un accidente, sino un asesinato, y finalmente, da con el asesino.

No tengo mucho más que decir sobre este libro, ha sido una lectura muy amena y entretenida. Es un libro cortito que apenas tiene 83 páginas para leer. Aparte de el libro en sí, viene un glosario, donde puedes encontrar algunas palabras junto con su traducción, para facilitarte la lectura. Finalmente, vienen al final una serie de actividades para realizar, todas ellas sobre la lectura. Es muy aconsejable para personas que como yo, están intentando leer más en este idioma.

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[Kay · Rating 2 out of 5]

Maybe I should have paid closer attention to the names of the characters as they were being introduced, but I seemed to have a hard time keeping them straight for some reason. But, I'm willing to give Paretsky another shot since this is only the first of her novels that I've read.

[Alicia. · Rating 4 out of 5]

/5

[Haya · Rating 3 out of 5]

So sad because the ending really disappointed for me