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Penguin Readers Level 5: Fool Me Once (ELT Graded Reader)

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Fool Me Once, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.

Maya’s rich husband Joe was murdered in New York. One day, Maya sees something on her nanny camera which makes her question everything that she knows about Joe’s murder. As she searches for answers, Maya gets pulled deeper and deeper into a world of lies and secrets.

About Harlan Coben

Harlan Coben is a #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author and one of the world’s leading storytellers. His thrillers are published in forty-six languages and have been number one bestsellers in more than a dozen countries, with ninety million books in print worldwide. Coben is also the creator and executive producer of global hit TV shows including Fool Me Once and Missing You, as well as the forthcoming Run Away and Lazarus, with many more in the works.
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