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." ... Read more Read less
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.
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.
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.
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