Fifth Year

Officially Dead
Chapter 1

1. Who’s Colin Fenton?

2. Where was he at the beginning of the story? Why?
3. Who’s Julie?
4. What did Colin do before leaving the hotel? What happened?
5. Where did he go after that?
6. Did he go to bed early? Why?
7. What happened when he was at the pub?
8. What did Colin and the other man do then?
9. Who did Colin meet later?
10. How did Colin feel about her? Why?
11. What did Colin and the Bentleys talk about?
12. What happened later? What did Colin notice?
13. What did Linda ask Colin before leaving? Why?
14. What happened with the Bentleys once they were outside the pub?
15. What kind of person was John?
16. How did Linda calm things down?
What did she explain?
17. What did Linda want from her husband?
18. What did John want?

Chapter 2

1. What was Colin and Julie’s relationship like?

2. Where did Colin have to go that day?
3. What did Mr. Booker tell Colin about his financial situation?
4. What did Colin explain?
5. What did Colin need to save his company?
6. What had he already done about it?
7. What did Mr Booker think about it?
8. Why do you think Colin didn’t tell Julie the truth about his meeting with Mr Booker?
9. What did Colin find among his letters in the office?
10. What did Linda say in her letter?
11. What did he do with the letter? Why?
12. What did he keep?

Chapter 3

1. What kind of person was Linda?

2. What was Linda’s childhood like?
3. What happened at the age of twelve?
4. What did she do at the age of 18? Why?
5. How had she met John?
6. What kind of relationship did they have?
7. What happened a few months later? Did Linda know?
8. What did Linda decide to do? Why?
 9. What happened when John came out of prison?
10. Who phoned Linda one evening? What for?
11. What did Linda arrange with Colin?
12. Why did she prefer Wednesday?
13. Did Linda tell John about Colin’s call? What did she say?
14. What did Colin try to do before leaving the hotel to meet the Bentleys? Why?
15. What did Colin ask Linda as soon as they met?
16. What did she explain?
17. Where did they go after the pub?
18. What happened when they were drinking coffee after dinner?
19. How did Colin react?
20. What did Linda do?
21. What happened when Colin was leaving?
22. What did he do?
23. What happened the following morning?
24. What was Colin curious about?
25. What did Linda explain about the money?
26. What was the plan?
27. What did Colin say?

Chapter 4

1. What happened a few weeks later?

2. What did Linda and Colin arrange?
3. What was the only problem now? Why?
4. How did Linda tell John?
5. What happened when she mentioned Colin?
6. What did Linda do?
7. Did John accept in the end? Why?
8. What did Colin and Linda arrange in the end?
9. How did Colin feel about it?
10. What happened when it was time for Colin to go to Manchester?
11. How did he persuade Julie not to go with him?
12. Why was Julie angry with Colin anyway?
13. What did he explain?
14. How did Colin dress before leaving for Manchester? Why?
15. Where did he meet the Bentleys?
16. What did they arrange in the car?
17. What did Colin have to do once in the hotel? Why?
18. What did they do before leaving?

Chapter 5

1. What was the matter when Colin was heading for Manchester?
2. What did he decide to do? Why?
3. What happened while he was driving along a country road?
4. Why did the accident happen?
5. Were there any witnesses?
6. What did Mark do when he saw the accident?
 7. What could he see when he approached Colin’s car?
8. Did Mark want to help? What was the problem?
9. What happened next? Could the lorry driver help?
10. What happened while Mark was with Colin waiting for the ambulance?
11. What was the only thing Colin managed to tell Mark?
12. Were the fire fighters able to get Colin out of the car? What happened then?
13. What did Mark have to do?
14. What did Mark want to do?
15. What did the police officer explain to him?
16. What did the police officer offer Mark in order to reasure him?

Chapter 6

1. What was Julie doing at home?

2. How did she feel? Why?
3. What was happening at the Bentley’s?
4. Why were they anxious about the time?
5. What happened while they were waiting for Colin to call?
6. What was John’s first thought?
7. What did Linda tell him to do?
8. What did the police officers want?
9. How did Linda react?
10. What did the police officer ask Linda to do?
11. How did Linda take the news?
12. What was her new plan?
13. What did John think of it?

Chapter 7

1) What was Mark's job?

2) Did he go straight to bed as soon as he got home?
3) Could he concentrate on his work? Why?
4) Who called Julie in the morning? Why?
5) How did Julie react? What did she do?
6) What did she try doing before leaving the office? What happened?
7) How did she feel at night?
8) What did she do the following morning?
19 What did the police ask Julie?
10) What did she confess?
11) What did the police officer warn Julie?

Chapter 8

1) What was John’s new life like? How did he feel?

2) What happened when Linda arrived home?
3) What did she tell John to do?
4 What had Linda carried with her? What did she find in there?
5) Why did Linda get more anxious while searching the briefcase?
6) Why did they have to go on with the lie despite John’s feelings?

7) Where did Linda go after cooking John something to eat?

8) Where did she take the car? Why?
9) How did John's funeral go? What did Linda explain?
10) What happened when que got back home?
11) What did Linda promise John in order to calm him down?
12) What did they do later?

Chapter 9

1) What did Julie do in the office that morning?

2) What did she have to do later?
3) What was the first thing Mr. Booker tell Julie? What did he explain?
4) What did Julie say about the contract?
5) What did Mr. Booker conclude?
6) Did July show she was angry? Why?
7 What did Julie decide to do once at home?

Chapter 10

1) What was Mark planning to do at the weekend? What about on Monday?

2) When did Mark visit Linda?
3) Why did he think his journey had been a waste of time? Why did he ring the bell anyway?
4 What did he decide to do? Why?
5) What did Linda do that Monday?
6) What did she arrange with Frank?
7) What happened when Linda arrived home that night?
8) Did she let Mark in? Why?
9) What happened as they got in?
10) What could Mark see?
11) What did Linda make up?
12) Why was Mark confused?
13) What did Linda try to explain about the name?
14) What did Mark wonder all night?
15) What happened the following morning?

Chapter 11

1) Did Julie go to work on the morning the ad appeared? Why?

2) What calls did she get?
3) What did the police inform her?
4) Why was Julie starting to believe her husband had abandoned her and left the country?
5) Who called her later? What did he tell her? What did they arrange?
6) What did Mark tell Julie when they met?
7) Why didn’t Julie believe him?
8) What did Mark explain?
9) Did Julie believe him in the end?
10) What happened?
Chapter 12

1) Why did John leave his house? Where did he go?

2) Why was he feeling particularly nervous that night?
3) What was John taking with him?
4) Where did Linda park the van?
5) What did they arrange?
6) How did John manage to enter the shop?
7) What did he do next?
8) How did he enter the strong room?
9) Did he turn on the light at once? Why?
10)What did he take from the strong room?
11) What did he do as soon as he left the strong room? Why?
12)What did he steal after that?
13)What did he do once he finished emptying the cabinets? Why?
14)What else did he have to do before leaving the shop?
15)Why did he do so?
16)What did he do once Linda arrived?
17)Why did he destroy the lock?
18)Where did they go first?
19)Where did Linda go afterwards?
20)What did Frankie and Linda do? What did they arrange?
21)What did Linda do the following morning?
22)What was happening at the shop when she arrived?
23)What was the police’s theory? Why?
24)What did the police officer ask Linda? Did he ask anything else? Why?
25)What did Mr Rose offer Linda?
26)Did she accept?

Chapter 13

1. Why did Julie decide to call Mark?

2. What did they arrange?
3. What did Julie wonder after listening to Mark talking about the accident?
4. What was Mark’s theory?
5. What did Julie conclude then?
6. What did she decide to do?
7. What about Mark?

Chapter 14

1. What did Linda do before going to Spain?

2. What identity was John going to have when travelling to Spain? Why?
3. How was her meeting with Frankie?
4. What did Linda do after collecting the money?
5. What happened outside Linda’s house?
6. What did Julie decide to do? Why?
7. Did Linda notice she was being followed? When?
8. Did she tell John about it?
 9. What happened on the way to Dover?
10. Did Mark follow them?
11. What did Linda do when they were driving along the narrow lane?
12. What happened? What did John do? What did Mark do?
13. What did Linda do? Could they escape?
14. What happened with Mark and Julie?
15. What did they tell the police?
16. Why did the police believe their strange story?
17. What did the police decide to do? What was the problem now?

Chapter 15

1. What was Mark and Julie’s relationship like after the attack?
2. What did Julie decide to do about Mr Booker?
3. How did Mark help Julie with the new software?
4. How was it profitable for her clients? What about her company?
5. How else could she save money?
6. What happened a year later?
7. What happened seven years later?
8. How had INTERPOL been able to find the Bentleys?
9. What was going to happen to them?
10. Why did Julie feel relieved in the end?