Derek Landy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Meet Skulduggery Pleasant
Ace Detective
Snappy Dresser
Razor--tongued Wit
Crackerjack Sorcerer
and
Walking, Talking,
Fire-throwing Skeleton
--as well as ally, protector, and mentor of Stephanie Edgley, a very unusual and darkly talented twelve-year-old.
These two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil.
The end of the world?
Over his dead body.
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 2
Language
English
Description
When the evil Baron Vengeous escapes from prison, Detective Skulduggery Pleasant and his apprentice, Valkyrie Cain, have just two days to recapture him or the Baron's creature, the Grotesquery, may summon the Faceless Ones back to their world.
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 3
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Valkyrie and the skeleton mage, Skulduggery Pleasant, try to foil a plot set in motion fifty years before to find and open the gate that will allow the Faceless Ones to return to this reality.
5) Dark days
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Skulduggery is gone. All our hopes rest with Valkyrie. The world's weight is on her shoulders, and its fate is in her hands.
6) Mortal coil
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When no one is who they seem, when she can't trust her friends and her enimies are closing in from all around her, the only thing Valkyrie can do is run.
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 6
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
602 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death Bringer, and that's a good thing. The catch? They don't need her any more because they've found their Death Bringer already, the person who will dissolve the doors between life and death. And that's a very, very bad thing ...
8) MIDNIGHT
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 11
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
9) Resurrection
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 10
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The skeleton detective is coming back to life... again! It's the tenth, triumphant novel in the Skulduggery Pleasant series, and it will rearrange your world. A lot has changed. Roarhaven is now a magical city, where sorcerers can live openly. Valkyrie Cain has been out of action for years, recovering from the war against her alter-ego Darquesse, which nearly destroyed her and everyone else. Some things never change though: bad people still want...
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume Book 9
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
604 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Valkerie. Darquesse. Stephanie. The world ain't big enough for the three of them. The end will come... The War of the Sanctuaries has been won, but it was not without its casualties. Following the loss of Valkyrie Cain, Skulduggery Pleasant must use any and all means to track down and stop Darquesse before she turns the world into a charred, lifeless cinder. And so he draws together a team of soldiers, monster hunters, killers, criminals...and Valkyrie's...
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 8
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
604 pages. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
War has finally come. Not between good and evil, but between Sanctuaries, and if Skulduggery and Valkyrie are to stop it they must team up with the rest of the Dead Men. And at the same time, another war rages within Valkyrie herself, as Darquesse is on the verge of rising ...
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 7
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
600 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Across the land, normal people are suddenly developing wild and unstable powers. Infected by a rare strain of magic, they are unwittingly endangering their own lives and the lives of the people around them. Terrified and confused, their only hope lies with the Sanctuary. Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are need now more than ever. And then there's the small matter of Kitana. A normal teenage girl who, along with her normal teenage friends,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the war with Mevolent rages on, the Dead Men are dispatched to a walled town in the Tuscan hills not to assassinate the Lord of the Dark Sorcerers, but to save him. A rift has opened to a hellish dimension where a being of devastating power awaits, and only Mevolent is strong enough to seal it and save the world. A simple mission, then, which turns ever-so-slightly trickier when Skulduggery is presented with the opportunity to finally get revenge...
14) Until the end
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 15
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
646 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The second cycle of the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series comes to a thrilling end. You are not ready... The Faceless Ones have returned to our universe. The bad guys have won. With the end of everything just days away - and no longer able to rely on Valkyrie Cain - Skulduggery must make allies of enemies if he's going to stand any chance of saving what's left of the world. And just when things are looking their bleakest, they...
