Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.Oh yeah. And dead.Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.Oh yeah. And dead.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…“A high-intensity tale….Readers, particularly Artemis Fowl fans, will be skipping meals and sleep to get to the end.”— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Utterly charming…perfect for the Potter crowd.”— Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Rich fantasy that is as engaging in its creative protagonists and villains as it is in the lightning-paced plot and sharp humor.”— BCCB“Landy keeps the action brisk, his characters slightly macabre, and uses humor to take the edge off.”— ALA Booklist“Skulduggery Pleasant serves up a thoroughly satisfying blend of humor, magic and adventure. Once you’ve met Stephanie and Skulduggery, you’ll be clamoring for a sequel.”— Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson seriesDerek 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."• Winner of the Irish Book of the Year Award 2010 (senior)!• The fifth title in this bone-breakingly funny adventure series will be a must-have for fans everywhere. And for the first time in this new autumn slot, it’s sure to become the top Christmas present for teens and tweens!• Book 4 in the series - Dark Days - exploded into the top of the charts with a massive 12k copies in one week, reaching no.3 in the children’s chart (behind Stephenie Meyer) and becoming the quickest selling Skulduggery HB ever!• Over 100k* copies of Skulduggery Pleasant book one and over 300k* copies of all titles in the series so far in the UK alone (*Nielsen Bookscan) and 1m books sold worldwide• Dedicated global website www.skulduggerypleasant.com continues to get bigger and better with new downloads, widgets, wallpapers and web chats with author Derek Landy, and 45k Skulduggery fans signed up to hear the latest news• Catch up with Derek regularly on his active new blog http://dereklandy.blogspot.com• Featured in all major high street, online and supermarket Christmas promotions• Also available: Skulduggery Pleasant 978-0-00-724162-0, Playing with Fire 978-0-00-725705-8, The Faceless Ones 978-0-00-730216-1 and Dark Days 978-0-00-732597-9Competition: Rick Riordan;Darren Shan;Robert Muchamore;Lemony Snicket;Anthony Horowitz;Eoin Colfer;Jonathan Stroud;Michael Grant
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