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>Billions of lives will be wiped away in a final desperate search for the Child of the Faceless Ones — she who is destined to bring about the return of humankind's ancient overlords.</p><p>To prevent this Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain have one last – terrible – option: the assassination of Damocles Creed. With protests stirring in the magical city of Roarhaven with riots and revolutions on the horizon Valkyrie must decide who she wants to be: the hero who risks everything for a noble ideal or the killer who sacrifices her own soul for the fate of humanity.</p>
