Two members of an obscure community are reported missing. As Arwin investigates, he begins to suspect that his brother Max may be implicated. Unbeknownst to Arwin, their mother Grace suspects far more than she's telling. Will Arwin find the missing Monogs? Will Grace come clean before she dies? Will Max and Lucy's daughter Siloen trap the shadowy sheep stalker? Will Max and Goode's son Salvador finish piling polythene bags? Will the hot air balloon carry Max away from Goode? Will Lucy welcome Max with more than her bed? Will Siloen or Salvador win the competition? Will Arwin's bicycle survive the Great Glen? Will Beth and Arwin find love amongst the test tubes? The answers to all these irrelevancies may be glimpsed in this tumbling tale of singing and silences, secrets and deaths, set in the Scottish highlands in the not so near future. Singing About the Dark Times is the sequel to The Wave Singer (Argyll, 2008), and was written with Scottish Arts Council support."