The Screaming Tree

by Ben Savage

Some things are better left behind. Andy Thackery left his past behind twenty years ago, vowing never to return to the village where he was born. He has few memories of his childhood, but when he begins to dream about the girl he grew up with, he realises he will have to go back to find out what happened to her. Skye vanished when she was eleven and he has never seen her since, but when he begins looking for her, he reopens old wounds, rediscovers the memories he has hidden away in the deepest corner of his brain. As he slowly uncovers the horrifying truth of what happened to Skye, he finds himself and his family threatened by people so powerful they feel they can murder and abduct children with impunity. When his own daughter is taken, he realises he must find those responsible and expose them before it is too late, but as the memories gradually reveal the appalling truth of his own childhood he finds his own sanity threatened.
To save his family, he must face his worst nightmares and confront those memories he thought he had hidden for ever.

394 pages, Paperback

Published July 20, 2022