like a movie is an absorbing novel for adults to be read at a beginning level of English.

Sue Leather, author of this book and several others, spoke at a conference I attended. She said that she had a tendency to write mystery novels; she sometimes tried to write a novel, but she always found a dead body in the story. That trend is clearly at work here.

I’m a handyman, like I told you. I mean that I was a handyman I worked on houses and office buildings in Toronto. Hard work and little money. Well, one day I did a job in Rosedale, the rich area of ​​Toronto. very rich I was in a house Carrie’s house. I put it there. . .

Brad Black, the narrator, is self-centered and greedy, but he knows how to make women trust him. When he meets the rich and lonely Carrie, he decides to marry her for her money. He figures he’ll return to her true love, Gina, and live happily ever after, once he arranges for Carrie to have an “accident.”

Brad has seen too many movies. He learns the hard way that life is not as such. Although he is not a likable character, and certainly not a hero, his story is compelling to the very end.

It’s a very easy read, but the themes of exploitation and murder make it an adult book.

like a movie (2000 by Sue Leather, Cambridge University Press: English Readers, Level 1, 32 pages) is also available as an audiobook.