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>On a desperate journey 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.</p><p>With Abyssinia's grand plan about to kick off in a night of magic terror and bloodshed it falls to Omen Darkly to save the lives of thousands of innocent people.</p><p>And as the madness unfolds around him as hidden enemies step into the light and as Valkyrie is sucked into a desperate lawless quest of her own he has no choice but to become the hero he never really wanted to be — or die in the attempt.</p>
