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."
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War has finally come.
But it's not a war between good and evil or light and dark – it's a war between Sanctuaries. For too long the Irish Sanctuary has teetered on the brink of world-ending disaster and the other Sanctuaries around the world have had enough. Allies turn to enemies friends turn to foes and Skulduggery and Valkyrie must team up with the rest of the Dead Men if they're going to have any chance at all of maintaining the balance of power and getting to the root of a vast conspiracy that has been years in the making.
But while this war is only beginning another war rages within Valkyrie herself. Her own dark side the insanely powerful being known as Darquesse is on the verge of rising to the surface. And if Valkyrie slips even for a moment then Darquesse will burn the world and everyone in it.
