Derek Landy

eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway

Series

Skulduggery Pleasant volume 3

Formats

Description

She's twelve. He's dead. But together they're going to save the world. Hopefully. Third bone-breaking, belly-busting adventure in the bestselling series that puts the "funny" back in... um... funny series. That didn't really work, did it? If you've read the previous Skulduggery books then you know what the Faceless Ones are – and if you know what the Faceless Ones are, then you can probably take a wild guess that things in this book are going to...

2) Skulduggery Pleasant

Author

Series

Skulduggery Pleasant volume 1

Formats

Audiobook CD, eAudiobook

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 Edgely, a very unusual and darkly talented twelve-year-old.

These two alone stand in the way of an all-consuming ancient evil.

3) Death Bringer

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2012

Physical Desc

602 p. ; 20 cm.

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 ...

4) Mortal coil

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2010

Physical Desc

571 p. ; 24 cm.

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.

5) The dying of the light

Author

Series

Skulduggery Pleasant volume 9

Pub. Date

2014.

Physical Desc

604 pages ; 24 cm.

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...

6) The Faceless Ones

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2018.

Physical Desc

388, [1] pages ; 20 cm.

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.

7) Playing with fire

Author

Series

Pub. Date

c2008

Physical Desc

389 p. ; 22 cm.

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.

8) Last stand of dead men

Author

Series

Skulduggery Pleasant volume 8

Pub. Date

2013.

Physical Desc

604 pages ; 24 cm

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 ...

9) Armageddon outta here

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2015.

Physical Desc

480 p.; 23 cm.

Description

For the first time, every Skulduggery Pleasant short story - plus The End of the World, the World Book Day novelette - is collected into one magnificent volume. But that's not all... Written specially for this collection, there is an entirely new novella that will drag you into a nail-biting American horror story, Skulduggery-style, and three brand-spanking-new stories spanning the last 150 years. Join Gordon Edgley as he parties like it's 1985, watch...

10) The maleficent seven: from the world of Skulduggery Pleasant

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2014.

Physical Desc

p. cm.

Description

Tanith Low, now possessed by a remnant, recruits a gang of villains in order to track down and steal the four God-Killer level weapons that could hurt Darquesse when she eventually emerges. But villains are villains for a reason and Tanith needs to stay two steps ahead of her teammates and her enemies to complete her mission.

11) Playing with Fire: Playing with Fire

Author

Series

Skulduggery Pleasant volume 2

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.

12) Until the End

Author

Series

Description

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 manage to get even worse, with Omen Darkly suddenly having to step up when his brother, the Chosen One, falls. There's a lot...

13) Skulduggery Pleasant

Author

Pub. Date

c2007

Physical Desc

392 p. ; 24 cm.

Description

When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones.

14) Death bringer

Author

Series

Skulduggery Pleasant volume 6

Pub. Date

c2011

Physical Desc

12 sound discs (CD) (ca. 14 hrs.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in. in container.

Description

The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death Bringer, and that's a Good Thing. There's just one catch. There's a reason the Necromancers don't need her any more. And that's 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...

15) Mortal coil

Author

Series

Skulduggery Pleasant volume 5

Pub. Date

p & c2010

Physical Desc

10 sound discs (CD) (ca. 11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

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.

16) Kingdom of the wicked

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2007

Physical Desc

13 sound discs (CD) (ca. 13 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Description

Mortals all throughout the world are inexplicably obtaining magical powers, and the trail seems to lead to Argeddion, a pacifistic, almost god like being, who, with the knowledge of his true name, hopes to bring magic to the masses, and lift the world into a new era of enlightenment and peace. The only problem with his seemingly idyllic plan: many of his test subjects are running wild, drunk on their newfound power, and are slaughtering innocent people...

17) Dark days

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2010

Physical Desc

7 sound discs : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.

Description