On the fifth day of Christmas, Solaris gave to me... the last two books in its thrilling and
terrifying trilogy. First, I followed three young boys with lost time and
memories, who became three disturbed men called back to where it began. Enter
hummingbird warnings, bad dreams come to life, and dark Silent Voices from the shadows, these men don’t get a holiday from
the place you can’t ever leave. But then again comes another card from that
bleak location, which reads: Beyond Here Lies Nothing except the something that
comes. And it’s up to one man to piece to together the pieces of Captain
Clickety, a missing little girl, and the ghosts that are stirring restlessly.
The Concrete Grove wishes you a Merry Christmas and welcomes you in – if you
dare.
Silent Voices, Book Two of The Concrete Grove Trilogy | Gary
McMahon
£7.99, ISBN: 978-1-78108-020-7
A council estate has
never been seen like this before.
Twenty years ago, three young boys staggered out of an old
building. Missing for a weekend, the boys had no idea of where they’d been, but
they all shared the same vague memory of a shadowed woodland grove… and they swore
they’d been gone for only an hour. When Simon returns to the Concrete Grove to
see his old friends and unearth painful memories from his childhood, things
once buried begin to claw their way back to the surface.
The hummingbirds are flying again, bringing a warning of
something terrible. Bad dreams take on physical forms and walk the streets of
the estate. A dark, hideously patient entity is calling once again from the shadows,
reaching out towards three terrified boys who have grown into emotionally
damaged men. And the past is about to catch up with them all, staining their lives
with a darkness they could never truly escape.
Welcome back to the Concrete Grove. The place you can never
really leave…
£7.99, ISBN: 978-1-78108-020-7
The end of an
acclaimed thrilling trilogy from the council estate that you can’t escape.
Marc Price arrives in the Concrete Grove to research a book
about the “Northumbrian Poltergeist,” an infamous case from the 1970s: twins
haunted by a spirit they nicknamed Captain Clickety. The media of the time were
split between derision and hysteria. As Marc teases out the suppressed details
of the story, he finds himself drawn to a woman whose young daughter went
missing years ago during a spate of child abductions. He also finds himself
investigated by a local policeman, whose private life seems tied up with events
in the Grove, and harassed by the father of the missing child.
Then the scarecrows appear, their heads plastered with
photographs of the long-missing and the dead. Hummingbirds flock to certain
areas of the estate, as if awaiting the arrival of something… a door has been
opened and a presence is about to step through. It is up to Marc to put the
ghosts to rest and unravel fact from fiction. He is about to discover that the
story he seeks is his own, and only he can plot the ending.
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