• Lockwood & Co.

  • The Whispering Skull: Book 2
  • By: Jonathan Stroud
  • Narrated by: Katie Lyons
  • Series: Lockwood and Co., Book 2
  • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
  • Unabridged Audiobook
  • Release date: 09-25-14
  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4.5 (14 ratings)

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Publisher's Summary

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 unleashed, 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.
©2014 Jonathan Stroud (P)2014 Random House Audiobooks
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"Stroud is a genius." (Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series)
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5 out of 5 stars
By ciorstan on 10-20-14

Terrific sequel to Screaming Staircase

If you enjoy Garth Nix, you will love Jonathan Stroud. My two teenagers are delighted by these funny, creative, scary stories. I enjoy them too!

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5 out of 5 stars
By david on 01-11-15

Talk about a cliff hanger

No spoilers but I can't wait for more in the series. The characters are interesting and you can relate to them, the plots are in some ways predictable but that's half the fun (also I'm 37).

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3 out of 5 stars
By Mrs CJ & MR DV Overton on 09-29-14

Stroud strikes again Stand by to be spooked

This is another magnificent book by Jonathan Stroud. It is spooky, gripping and funny. There are twist and turns, clues and answers. The unanswered question, what is Lockwood hiding. The book is let down by Katie Lyon's performance. She sounds the same as as Miranda Raison to start with but has none of the subtlety or range. When Lockwood, Lucy and George are talking it is impossible to tell who is speaking. She does a passable chirpy cockney which she uses liberally but that is as far as it goes. As a Whispering Skull she is laughable. An excellent book let down by a poor choice of narrator,

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