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When I Kill You

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Gina Lopez is twenty-six, a postal worker during the week, a mud wrestler on weekends.

Gina's also a recent widow, though she is not exactly mourning the death of her abusive husband Chico. Instead, she's anxiously awaiting the life-insurance settlement that will pay off his gambling debts. After that she's hoping to take her mud-wrestling skills out of small-town-Ontario bars and down to the more lucrative US circuit. And then Marcia Beekland enters her life. Marcia has video evidence that appears to implicate Gina in Chico's death. Faced with the likelihood of a jail sentence and the certain loss of the insurance settlement, Gina succumbs to Marcia's blackmail demands. And what Marcia wants is that Gina kill her husband Stanley. What follows is a comic mystery caper that will keep readers both laughing and eagerly reading to discover what is really behind Marcia's increasingly crazed demands.

This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for older teen readers and adults who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don't like to read!

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    • Booklist

      April 15, 2012
      Gina thought her problems were over when her husband, Chico, died. Not only is she rid of her abusive partner, she also stands to gain a sizable life-insurance settlement. After losing a mud-wrestling match against her nemesis (yes, she's a semipro mud wrestler), she is soon shocked to find herself blackmailed by Marcia Beekland, who claims she saw Gina push Chico off a cliff, and finds herself agreeing to carry out a hit on Beekland's husband. Talk about a bad day. With a plot riddled with missed opportunities, the novel boasts plenty of suspense and an action-packed pace, but author Wan takes time to slow down and really chip away at her characters. Gina is a woman backed against the wall, with fate consistently dealing her a losing hand, in life and in mud wrestling, but she never gives up the fight. Wan pulls her punches effectively, keeping the reader involved to the end.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2012, American Library Association.)

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  • OverDrive Read
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  • English

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  • ATOS Level:4.1
  • Lexile® Measure:590
  • Interest Level:9-12(UG)
  • Text Difficulty:2-3

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