Dead Cold

by Sue Leather

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Detective Flick Laine goes to Pine Crest, a ski resort in Colorado USA, to investigate the murder of Janine, a 23-year-old student of journalism. What was the big story Janine was working on before her death? Contains a paperback and 2 Audio CDs with complete text recordings from the book.

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 2007

About the author

Sue Leather has been in the ELT field for thirty years. Originally from the north west of England, between 1985 and 2000, she worked as a teacher, teacher trainer and educational manager in Spain, UK and the Netherlands. She has an MA in Education from the Institute of Education, University of London. She has written a number of articles for ELT journals and magazines, and is a frequent presenter at international conferences. In 2000, she set up her own consultancy group, Sue Leather Associates, and works on educational projects all over the world. Her main interests within ELT are materials development, teacher training and trainer training.

Sue has been writing original learner fiction since 1990, and has written some thirty readers . Her Dead Cold , published by Cambridge University Press, won the Extensive Reading Foundation award in 2005. Sue is currently Co-Series Editor for Page Turners, a series of original fiction for National Geographic/Cengage Learning. She now lives on the beautiful west coast of Canada, where she gains inspiration for her work.

Reviews

[Janete on hiatus due health issues · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,5 stars round up. Pre-Intermediate book for English as a Second Language Students. It was thrilling, but it could have 5 more pages because the conclusion was too fast.

Synopsys: "It was a small town, where the body of a girl was found. It happened in January. The town was located in the mountains, not far from Denver. In the distant past, precious metals were mined in this village. Nowadays this city has turned into a place for rest: people like to come there and ski or just have a walk in the mountains. So you can spend a pleasant weekend. Lots of movie stars buy houses in this town - it's quiet and beautiful. This city has never been like a place where you can find a corpse. There have been accidents or injuries while skiing, but not exactly murder. The morning of the main character began with the fact that he was called in by the police and told about this crime. He realized that he would have to deal with this difficult situation."

[Schnici · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gute Lektüre für den Englischunterricht, insgesamt spannend, jedoch hat mich das Ende sehr enttäuscht und es ist Recht simpel gehalten

[Las Lecturas De Lucía · Rating 3 out of 5]

Para ser el típico de clase de inglés es entretenido aunque un poco rápido el final pero bueno tampoco puedes esperarte mucho para un libro tan cortito.

Pero para empezar a leer en inglés con poco nivel es perfecto la verdad.

La historia en sí también es entretenida, va sobre un asesinato y la policía tiene que ir a Pine Crest a investigar el caso. No está mal y es perfecto para practicar el pasado ya que lo narra ella en pasado.

[Hazem · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved it

[Himawari Ogawa · Rating 4 out of 5]

1.Publisher; Sue Leather
Company; Cambridge University Press
Level; 2

2.Time; 12/7 24mins 30mins
12/10 12mins
12/12 15mins

3.sky,woman,search,die,journalist,protect,money

4,Do you like ski??
→Yes! I like doing!! But I haven't ski since I was a elementary school student.lol
so I want to ski.
If you have a lot of money, what do you want to do??
→If I have a lot of money, I'd love to travel around the world.
but if I do, I also have to get the time to do that. lol

5. This story is good. I enjoyed it. But it is a mystery so I needed to know who they are completely to understand this story. I read over again and again to do it. I enjoyed this story because I did.

[Minaho Isaji · Rating 3 out of 5]

time 62min
7 word summary
1,girl 2,died 3,pool 4,skiing 5,detective 6,found 7,killer
discussion questions
1, the dead girl was a university student. if your friends were killer by someone, how would you feel?
i would feel very sad and very horrible. a murder is horrible. i would never forgive the killer.
2, in winter, it was too cold to swim at outside but the dead girl liked to swim at outside. do you want to swim at outside in cold wnter?
i do not want to do that. i do not like cold. i can not believe the girl liked to swim at outside in cold winter.

[ゆきてぃ · Rating 4 out of 5]

CAMBRIDGE level2
10/26=50min. 10/27=20min. total=70min.
Seven word summary / girl, detective, skiing, murder, journalist, movie star, resort
Q Do you want to be a journalist in future like a girl of this book?
A No. Of course, I think a journalist is a very good job but I also think a journalist is a very hard job. I couldn’t research about something so hard like her.

This story was very interesting and exciting. I enjoyed reading it because I like suspense story like this book. And I was surprised at end of this book! I couldn’t expect this end. But I was glad because this book is happy end!

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

Este es el típico libro que te mandan leer en clase de inglés, pero sin ser el típico libro....
Es un libro con una muy buena historia ( y mira que no suelo leer novela negra) y que sin duda destaca por encima de las lecturas obligatorias. La historia está muy lograda para tener apenas 50 páginas y de verdad, es preciosa. Aunque a los personajes les falte un poco de desarrollo, pero en fin, que más quiero.

Otra cosa que me ha fallado es el hecho de que no está demasiado bien clasificado ya que se supone que es un A2 y yo lo pondría en un B1 pero bueno, yo no soy el experto.

[Sam Zhou · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is by Sue Leather, it is a story about a police, in a small village in a hotel, a girl die in the swimming pool, the police know that is a stange man kill her from other’s people’s mouth, he know the girl is finding something from the girl’s parents, then he knows the girl know something that she can not know, at last the police catch the killer and knows that the killer kill the girl because the girl have the enough evidence to let everyone knows the capitian of the city do something bad

[Minami Murase · Rating 4 out of 5]

time-75min

7words-friend-girl-dead-skiing-swimming-arrest-killer

Do you always take a note about your day, your feeling?
No, I don't. However, I took a note like diary with my friends when I was a elementary school student.

If your friends were dead now, how do you do?
I don't want to think about that. the death of people make me sad.

[Ryutaro Hamada · Rating 4 out of 5]

1. Cambridge, Level2
2. 11/27: 120min
3. murder, resort, girl, money, police, skiing, gun
4. How do you feel if your friend sould be killed by someone?
- I would be terribly shocked. I hope that such a thing does not occur.
5. This is a kind of mystery novel. I can enjoy reading it while finding a criminal. It was very interesting and it was easy to read. I recommend it.

[Bridget · Rating 3 out of 5]

(2.5/5)

Not much to say. Quick, not so easy read. Saw it at the library and thought I'd read it not totally realizing until I got home what the Cambridge books were for...picked up a couple others not sure if I'll read them or not. I picked them up initially because they were short books and hoped for easy reads.

[Monica Keller · Rating 3 out of 5]

30minutes
dead,body,mountain,pool,murder, killer, journalist
What would you do before you die?
It was difficult to understand why the girl was dead.

[Nawal Sami · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the number of characters and enjoyed reading

[Jenny · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is another book from a literacy series so it is written at a basic reading level. The mystery was interesting as was the detective. An enjoyable short read.

[Barb VanderWel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book.
I can't wait for more.
I will be leaving reviews on AMAZON & GOODREADS!
And letting everyone know about it.
So I gave it FIVE STARS!

[Lin · Rating 3 out of 5]

the conclusion was too fast but I really liked the story

[Yuki · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story sometimes felt like seeing flooding emotions of character's, main character in particular. It was very rich in expression. I couldn't stop reading because it was an very interesting book.

By the way, we can free downloaded the audios of the books from Cambridge English Readers on the website, so I have read this book with both text and audio. It was the first book I have properly listened the narration of book. I listened again and again it and read as I speak with the voice of narration. I deeply understood the story and could feel better the emotions of characters.

[Palmaria M · Rating 4 out of 5]

A light read with simple sentences tailored for ESL learners. The simple plot line and pictures make it suitable for all ages. As is with short stories, there was little room for character development but just enough time was spent on growing the story to leave the reader guessing who the criminal was. A traditional book that follows the 3 part structure of writing with an easy-to-follow demarcation of chapters. Although the ending felt slightly rushed it was a satisfying read. Additionally, such stories would be great for future writers to study the basic structure of creative writing.

[Peach Moon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Es una lectura super cortita, sin embargo resulta muy atrapante. De principio a fin me mantuve con muchas dudas y suposiciones.
Al final mis teorías fueron reales y eso hace que me haya encantado mucho.

[Elizabeth · Rating 2 out of 5]

Es un buen libro para empezar a practicar tu lectura en inglés, es fácil de entender, sin embargo hablando de la trama, me parecio muy predecible, muy plana la historia, y un final muy rápido y no creíble, lo recomendaría solamente para practicar tu lectura en inglés

[Kitty · Rating 3 out of 5]

Esto es un libro en inglés y yo me lo leí………spoiler yo no soy la más gringa del planeta entonces estoy muy feliz por esta lectura ya que era para practicar mi reading .

Sin duda leeré algo más del estilo para practicar .

[Laura Ríos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Por qué cuatro estrellas?
El libro es muy bueno para practicar inglés, o al menos yo lo leí con ese objetivo porque tengo un nivel básico y fue bastante fácil de leer pero la historia no me atrapó tanto como para cinco estrellas, a pesar de todo, muy buen libro.

[Budoor Kareem · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice

[Peter Matamoros · Rating 5 out of 5]

An easy-to-read and very exciting book.

[Antonella · Rating 4 out of 5]

Buen libro, fácil y rápido de leer.
Es un buen libro para empezar a leer en inglés.

[Stefany M · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Mi nivel de inglés es A2 y lo pude leer sin problemas.
La mayor parte de la historia está en pasado.
Para mí fue muy fácil seguir el hilo de la historia, no sé me hizo pesado. Lo disfrute.

[Naomi Valle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesante, solo que va muy lento al inicio para ir rápido al final de la historia.

[Muhammad Ali · Rating 5 out of 5]

Plain English

[gia ౨ৎ ⋆˚ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Aunque sea un libro corto y con lenguaje simple para aprender está muy bueno, dios.