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Yes, life was good. I was in my red Chevy and life was good. (p. 48)    A dead girl is found in a swimming pool on Pine Crest, USA. She's Janine, a 23-year-old student who wanted to write for a newspaper. Detective Flick Laine has to find the killer. But first she must find out the big story Janine was working on before her death.    Flick Laine is a detective in the Denver Police. And, her previous partner on the job, Scott King was murdered with a gun two months ago. Flick saw the death of Scott. So, she didn't want to work on a case of murder. But, she had to find the killer who murdered Janine.    She came across some dangerous situations, but she could find the killer and the reasons why the killer murdered Janine. The killer was a person who murdered Scott! The killer and some other people would stay in prison for many years.    Finally, the case has been solved.    The story was so exciting and interesting. Leather, Sue. (2006). Dead Cold. Cambridge: Cambridge

"Police! Stop or wee shoot! Now, Joe!" (p. 43)    The name of the main character is Nat Marley. He has been a private investigator in New York for over ten years. Before that, he was in the police.    While I was working in my office on East 43rd Street I got a phone call. "I want to talk with you about a family problem," the caller, Curtis began.    His brother-in-law, Ellis changed terribly. He's just not the same man. Ellis has his own pet shop. He sells customers from birds to snakes.    In fact, Dionne, Curtis's sister and Ellis's wife, has a terrible disease and has to go to the hospital. Ellis saved money for her, but he couldn't save enough money to go to the hospital. So, he sells his customers snakes that isn't allowed to bring to the country. And then, he was threatened by one of the curtomers who bought the illegal snake, and had to sell cocaine.    Nat helped them so smartly. Ellis and Dionne could have a usual, safe life. C

'Turn like a wheel,' he laughed while he danced with the children. (p. 11)    This book is consisted of five stories. So, I'd like to review one of the stories.    The title of the story is 'Quick Man Tan.' Caleb Tan was a great Chinese dancer and could move like fighters in kung fu films long time ago.    His family, he and his wife and son, has a cafe. His son was a good cook, and cooked all meal of the cafe. And, his wife carried the meal to people came to the cafe. But, Tan didn't work at all.    All he did was telling people his old stories. His family wanted him to work.    But one day, a robber came in to the cafe. He had robbed some things at other places. All people were afraid of the robber, but Tan moved like fighters in kung fu  films and the robber was on the floor. He helped to catch the robber! I thought that Caleb Tan was great. And, all five stories were so interesting. Brennen, Frank. (2005). Circle Games. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ

'I'm going to give this memory stick back to reception. Mine's another glass of red wine.' (p. 48)    'I'M afraid I've got some bad news,' said Detective Inspector Helen Shepherd. 'We found a body on the beach this morning. We believe it is Claudia Engel. We also believe that someone murdered her.'    'What?' McNab's mouth fell open. 'Claudia? I don't believe it. It can't be true.'    Brian Webb is a new sergeant of  Shepherd. Brian and Shepherd try to find the murderer. Engel came to Hythe, in the UK from Germany with her three colleagues to work.    In the beginning of the investigation, all colleagues denied that they killed Engel.    But, Sehpherd and Webb are great detectives.    Finally, James McNab, who owns the company admitted killing her. Macandrew, Richard . (1999). Bad Company. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.                                                                  

'But I think I found something better than gold in Aghios Sostis.' (p.48)       Liz studies and teaches archaeology in Athens. She works hard and needs a holiday, so she goes to the beautiful and peaceful island of Sifnos. In the island, there is the house of Liz's boss, Stavros. So, she decides that she will stay in the house. But the peace does not last long when a mysterious yacht arrives, one of the local men dies, and Liz becomes involved with some very dangerous people.       She talked to people who was in the mysterious yacht. And, they invited her to eat lunch together. She decided to eat lunch with them. But, she thought that she was in dangerous.    After a while, the yacht arrived a place that there is nobody. One of the crew tried to kill her. Actually, they were terrorists. But, another crew, Takis tried to help her. He worked for an international police force. And, he tried to catch them. The terrorists tried to kill them, but finally, Takis and

'Please go now. I don't want to see you again.' (p. 62)    Catherine Sloper lives with her father and her aunt in Washington Square. She is plain and uninteresting. But one day she will be rich because her father was a rich man, and after his death, she would be given his money.    Catherine falls in love with a handsome young man, Morris Townsend. But does he want Catherine? Or does he want her money? Of course he wanted her. But, he also wanted her father's money, too. Catherine's father didn't allow Catherine to marry Morris and he said that he would give his all money to the hospital.    Gradually, Morris came to think that he didn't want Catherine. Catherine wanted to marry him, but he went away to earn money. Finally, they didn't marry.    After many years, they met again. Morris asked her to marry, but she rejected it.    I thought that the end of the story was painful. James, Henry. (2005). Washington Square. Oxford: Macmillan H

'What is the truth?' (p. 29)    'Why did you make the Truth Machine?' asked the reporter. 'I love truth,' said Professor Varity, 'and I hate lies.' 'But how does the truth machine work?' asked the reporter. The Professor laughed. 'That's a secret.'    Professor Varity intented The Truth Machine. By using the machine, a person make another person say true things. The professor phoned the newspaper office and call a reporter.    A reporter came and ask the professor some questions about the machine. And, the professor answered.    The news about the machine spreaded around the world, and the professor was known by a lot of people. Some of them sent the professor moeny.    And, he invited some first clients of the machine.    After the test of the machine, the cients know the truth. One lost the job. And one didn't know what to do.    All of the clients didn't be happy. The Truth Machine didn't give them happines