Derek 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."
<p>When it restarted blinking back into existence it brought with it a darkness that remains hidden from the mortal population.</p><p>A week ago – fuelled by unimaginable hatred and unstoppable rage – a masked sorcerer killed one of those mortals. Then he killed another. And another.</p><p>With their time running out Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain must work to solve the puzzles the killer leaves behind before more innocents die embarking on a journey that will force them to deal with the apocalypse they failed to prevent the first time around.</p><p>AND MURDER. LOTS AND LOTS OF MURDER.</p>
