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.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 in order to lure Valkyrie into a final confrontation. With Skulduggery racing to catch up and young sorcerer Omen scrambling along behind, Valkyrie only has twelve hours to find Alice before it’s too late. The clock is ticking…Praise for Derek Landy:‘Landy [has the] ability to craft an engaging story from start to finish.’ Inis‘Derek Landy has been something of a publishing phenomenon.’ Irish PostDerek Landy lives near Dublin. Before writing his children's story about a sharply-dressed skeleton detective, he wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a murderous horror film. "I think my career-guidance teacher is spinning in her grave," he says, "or she would be if she were dead."• The Skulduggery Pleasant series launched in 2007 and was an immediate bestseller.• Since then the books have been number-one bestsellers in the UK, Ireland and ANZ, global sales are in excess of 5 million copies and the series can now be read in 36 languages.Competition: Artemis Fowl;Percy Jackson. Rick Riordan;Darren Shan;Anthony Horowitz;Eoin Colfer;Jonathan Stroud
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