The Surfing Corpse [Unabridged] [Audio CD]

PAUL ZINDEL (Author), JEFF WOODMAN (Narrator)

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402545681
• ISBN-13: 978-1402545689
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,982,455 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Guaranteed Read-Aloud Hit, November 4, 2001

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"mhsmedia" (Kinnelon, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Surfing Corpse (P.C. Hawke Mysteries) (Paperback)

I am reading this title aloud to my 5th, 6th, and 7th grade students. They moan and beg for just a little more everytime I tell them that we are out of time and they will have to come back next week to find out what happens in the next chapter. They love the snappy dialogue and are now borrowing every Paul Zindel book we own or can borrow from other libraries.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The thrilling second book in the series., July 7, 2001

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Rebecca Herman (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Surfing Corpse (P.C. Hawke Mysteries) (Paperback)

P.C. and Mackenzie, along with the rest of their class, saw Timmy Warner fall to his death over a three hundred foot waterfall. But unlike the others, they don't accept it as a simple accident. When they suspect his angry mother may be involved, they follow her all the way across the country to L.A., where they meet Timmy's sister and discover that his mother is trying to use the supernatural to contact her dead son. Then one day at the beach, they see a shocking site. The dyed hair doesn't fool P.C. and Mackenzie. The surfer they saw is Timmy. At first they think the death was staged in order to collect insurance money. But the real reason will truly shock them. Fans of the first book about P.C. and Mackenzie won't want to miss this one.

5.0 out of 5 stars Book review for: The Surfing Corpse (By Paul Zindel), March 14, 2007

A Kid's Review

This review is from: P.C. Hawke Mysteries: The Surfing Corpse - Book #2 (Paperback)

I thought this was a very good book. I'm gald I decided to read it, it was well worth my time. What made the book most interesting was it's plot and especially it's characters.

This book is abut two kids named PC and Makenzie. they live in New York City and work together in solving mysteries. When they're on a field trip at a waterfall, a student supposedly falls of edge of the falls. PC and Makenzie think the kid's mother did it at first, but when they take a trip to Las Angeles to investigate, they are convinced otherwise...

One of my favorite things about the book was it's main characters. PC Hawke and his 'partner', Makenzie were just two regular middle schoolers, but they did lots of crime investigations and got to go to lots of places.

I thought they were really lucky when they got to go to L.A. to solve a murder mystery.I liked how PC and Makenzie were extremely nosy and were always getting themselves into trouble. The other characters made the story interesting, too. I thought that the mother of the student who fell of the waterfall was very entertaining and sort of funny.

The other thing that made the book great was the plot. It had all sorts of unexpected twists and turns.The whole story you had no idea of what was going to come next. My favorite part of the entire story was at the very end, when PC and makenzie were trying to be killed by a group of people.It was very intense, but turned out good.

I strongly recomend this book to anyone who likes a good mystery book with twists and turns all throughout it. It's a great book and i'm happy I read it.