Lockwood & Co: The Whispering Skull: Book 2 (Lockwood & Co 2)
Jonathan Stroud
Now a major Netflix series!
Ghosts and ghouls beware! London's smallest, shabbiest and most talented psychic detection agency is back.
Life is never exactly peaceful for Lockwood & Co. Lucy and George are trying to solve the mystery of the talking skull trapped in their ghost jar, while Lockwood is desperate for an exciting new case.
Things seem to be looking up when the team is called to Kensal Green Cemetery to investigate the grave of a sinister Victorian doctor. Strange apparitions have been seen there, and the site must be made safe. As usual, Lockwood is confident; as usual, everything goes wrong - a terrible phantom is freed and a dangerous object is stolen from the coffin.
Lockwood & Co. must recover the relic before its power is unleashed, but it's a race against time. Their obnoxious rivals from the Fittes agency are also on the hunt. And if that's not bad enough, the skull in the ghost-jar is stirring again...
The author of the blockbuster BARTIMAEUS sequence delivers another humorous and chilling instalment in the critically acclaimed LOCKWOOD & CO. series.
'Stroud is a genius' Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series.
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Reviews for Lockwood & Co: The Whispering Skull: Book 2 (Lockwood & Co 2)
Lorna Bradbury
Sunday Telegraph
Seriously scary, brilliant prose.
Metro
Plenty of humour alongside the chills.
Financial Times
I’ve waited with baited breath for the second instalment of Jonathan Stroud’s Lockwood & Co novels. At last, The Whispering Skull is here and it is definitely worth the wait.
Scotsman Teen review
Stroud delivers another riveting narrative
Booklist
Rousing adventures for young tomb robbers and delvers into realms better left to the dead
Kirkus
There was a fight between me and my 11-year-old about who got first to Jonathan Stroud's Whispering Skull . . . A blissful read.
Evening Standard
As in the first volume there are plenty of heart-stopping moments and a generous dollop of gore, but nothing most teens and confident readers can't handle: in fact, the problem will be to persuade them to put the book down. In short, it's both gross and engrossing!
The Bookbag
The Whispering Skull frees Stroud to let his flair for spectacle run riot, resulting in several deftly constructed set-pieces far more akin to true horror than the ghost house antics of the first book.
Starburst
As in the first instalment, Stroud manages to perfectly balance grisly encounters with gleefully sarcastic humour.
Independent Children's blog