Customer Reviews

Death in the Afternoon (Hear No Evil)

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I enjoyed this book, Death in the Afternoon, Hear No Evil. I started reading it with my classmates and teacher. We read a chapter almost every night and learned more and more facts about the characters. This novel was about a teenage girl, Sara Howell who is deaf, and lives with her older brother Steve. Sara's mother wasn't mentioned in the novel, but her father was killed in a hit and run accident. Sara and her brother become suspicious for who killed their father. Sara is being followed, and soon gets messages sent to her by a mysterious person. There are much more facts to what happened in this novel. If you want to know what happens next, you should read the novel for yourself. I liked the author's stile of writing. I especially liked how the author wrote,"gooseflesh," instead of,"goosebumps." The suspense of the book became pretty intense for me at times because you don't know what was going to happen next. I basically enjoyed this book at all times, if you are the kind of person who enjoys reading mystery books, I would definatly recommend this book to you. Sarah, age 12

For my Reading class we read the book Death in the Afternoon (Hear no Evil 1) by Kate Chester. It was pretty good book. Some of the parts were very exciting while other parts were not. The characters of Sara & Steve were very intelligent thinkers. The plot was planned out very well by Kate Chester. It was very differnet to who the killer was then who I thought it was. The book almost seemed like it took place over a long period of time but it did not. But, If you like a a mystery stroy that is not to intense then this is a great book for you!

I know it may not be important from a 12 year old kid to read this but this book is one of my favorites.Some people think I don't understand things like this but I do.This story made me cry made me laugh and it mad me happy.I had such a good time reading your book.I'll get the second one another time.But if you ever think about stopping writeing stories take my advice
don't becouse the stories you write make people smarter in an unique kind of way.I don't
know what it is like to be deaf but i know alot about the deaf and that seemed to be from a deaf persons point of veiw. thanks for writeing good books.

from a 12 year old
Kelly

This story was well written. This book kept me on the edge of my seat. The suspense was intense and the author made me feel like Sara was a friend of my own and I felt very afraid for her. If I had to rate this book from 1-10, I would give it a perfect 10.I suggest this book Hear No Evil Death in the Afternoon to all people who love mysteries. People who love to put clues together and solve cases would enjoy this book. I think this book is great and it will always be one of my favorite books.

Last year my dad gave me Hear No Evil 1 for Christmas. I picked up the book it took me a week to read. Last month I read it again in only 5 hours I loved the book so much. Once you pick up the book you can't put it down! This book made me cry with Sara and laugh with her. After I read this book I started searching for the sequill, but could not find it anywhere until now. I recomend this book to all those who were caught by the title because the book not only lives up to it but surpasses it. A reader

I would just like to congradulate Scholastic Books for finaly getting a book series that appeals to everyone! I like to read anyway, but I was searching through the shelves at K-mart and this book jumped out at me. For a mere 3 dollars this was one the best books I've read and it puts expensive books by popular authors to shame. I'm 15 and I love this series. It's great for people of all ages.

It was absolutely awsome. I usually don't go for mystery books, but this one really grabbed my attention. And once it had my attention, it held it. It was wonderfully written. Very visual. I like that. Then it's easier to picture the events and characters. The entire series is wonderful. I wish there was more to the series as Sara grows up. This book definetly deserves the rating of 10(best) There is no other way to describe it but "the best."

I have never liked reading. But one day my mom tried me out on this book. I read it in 3 hours. Then because I liked it so much, my mom got me all of them!! I hope that she continues to write books.

This was a good book because it was cool and she found out who killed her dad. In the beginning it was exciting because she was on a case about who killed her father. She kept collecting clues to help her to find out. she has three friends who help her on her way. In the end she was on a boat and she heard people talk about killing her and another person. She had been shot at and that is how she found out who shot her father.

Death in the afternoon impacted me more than any other book i have read and i have read many hundreds of books. after approx. 55years ago (my first reading) i have returned time and time again and i am totally enveloped by the incredible insight of E.H. if in my lifetime i would have been allowed to have just one book, "death" by hemingway would be my choice without hesitation..