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(0)Derek Landy
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Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 2
Lexile Measure
700L
Summary
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
Lexile Measure
680L
Summary
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.
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Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 15
Pub. Date
2022.
Summary
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...
4) Dark days
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Summary
"He's dead. She's still in high school. But together they're going to save the world. Skulduggery is gone, sucked into a parallel dimension. There is no official plan to save him. But Valkyrie's never had much time for plans ..."--Back cover
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Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 9
Pub. Date
2019.
Summary
To find Darquesse before she can destroy the world, Skulduggery Pleasant gathers together a team of soldiers, monster hunters, and criminals.
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Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 14
Pub. Date
2021.
Summary
"Billions of lives will be wiped away in a final, desperate search for the Child of the Faceless Ones -- she who is destined to bring about the return of humankind's ancient overlords. To prevent this, Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain have one last - terrible - option: the assassination of Damocles Creed. With protests stirring in the magical city of Roarhaven, with riots and revolutions on the horizon, Valkyrie must decide who she wants to...
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 7
Pub. Date
2019.
Summary
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,...
8) Bedlam
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 12
Pub. Date
2019.
Summary
Desperately trying to recover her sister's lost soul, Valkyrie Cain goes up against the High Sanctuary itself-- and there's nothing Skulduggery Pleasant can do to stop her. With Abyssinia's grand plan about to kick off in a night of magic, terror, and bloodshed, Omen Darkly must try to save the lives of thousands of innocent people. And as the madness unfolds around him, as hidden enemies step into the light, and as Valkyrie is sucked into a desperate,...
9) Midnight
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 11
Pub. Date
2019.
Summary
"Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back in their most gripping story yet, as book 11, Midnight, picks up where Resurrection left off - and runs. For years, Valkyrie Cain has struggled to keep her loved ones safe from harm, plunging into battle - time and time again - by Skulduggery Pleasant's side, and always emerging triumphant. But now the very thing that Valkyrie fights for is in danger, as a ruthless killer snatches her little sister...
10) Seasons of war
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 13
Pub. Date
2020.
Summary
The thirteenth thrilling novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, SEASONS OF WAR will test the Skeleton Detective and Valkyrie like never before ... War is coming. To avert catastrophe, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are sent on a secret mission that takes them away from everything they know, to a forsaken land of magic and grim, unrelenting terror. It is here that Valkyrie will have to fight the hardest - not only against the...
11) Resurrection
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Summary
"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...
12) Mortal coil
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Summary
Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back - just in time to see their whole world get turned upside down. With Valkyrie struggling to protect her dark secret, Skulduggery and the gang are more vulnerable than ever, just as a plague of body-snatching Remnants are released upon the world...
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Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 8
Pub. Date
2019.
Summary
War has finally come. But it's not a war between good and evil, or light and dark--it's a war between Sanctuaries. For too long, the Irish Sanctuary has teetered on the brink of world-ending disaster, and the other Sanctuaries around the world have had enough. Allies turn to enemies, friends turn to foes, and Skulduggery and Valkyrie must team up with the rest of the Dead Men if they're going to have any chance at all of maintaining the balance of...
14) Death bringer
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 6
Pub. Date
2018.
Summary
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 ...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Summary
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...
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 1
Lexile Measure
700L
Summary
"Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror it certainly wasn't fiction. Pursued by evil forces, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source - the wisecracking skeleton of a dead sorcerer ..."--Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Summary
Enter a world of magic and mystery. Enter a world where Apocalypse Kings and ancient monsters stalk beside the killers, the misfits, the oddballs and the weirdos. Enter the world of Skulduggery Pleasant. This definitive story collection has been updated with seven new twisted tales of darkness and light, of heroes and villains and everything in-between. It will drag you, screaming, further than you have ever dared venture.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Summary
"A small town in the middle of Ireland, a string of unexplained deaths and a monster on the loose. Better call in the experts. When Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain drive into Termoncara, they discover a town with a dark past and a people haunted by their own secrets. There is a creature stalking the streets - a creature who delights in cruelty, who feeds off the little hatreds, who grows stronger with every drop of blood spilled."--Amazon....
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Summary
"Six years ago, the universe ended. When it restarted, blinking back into existence, it brought with it a darkness that remains hidden from the mortal population. A week ago - fuelled by unimaginable hatred and unstoppable rage - a masked sorcerer killed one of those mortals. Then he killed another. And another. With their time running out, Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain must work to solve the puzzles the killer leaves behind before more innocents...
