Derek Landy
Derek Landy is an Irish writer and screenwriter. In addition to the bestselling children's/YA series of Skulduggery Pleasant books, a supernatural mystery series starring Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton detective, and Valkyrie Cain, a young female magician, he has written two screenplays that have been made into films: the IFTA award winning "Dead Bodies" and the IFTA nominated "Boy Eats Girl". Landy himself was nominated for an IFTA for Best Script. He doesn’t like to brag about all the awards he’s won, such as the Irish Book of the Decade, or the Red House in the UK, or all the other awards that he humbly displays on his mantelpiece. He is also far too modest to mention things like the first book being a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year, but would like to extend an invitation to Oprah to pop around one day for tea, in thanks for selecting his book for the Oprah’s Book Club Kids Reading List. Derek plays too many video games, reads too many comics, and watches too many movies. He lives in Ireland with too many cats. Occasionally he talks to real people, but only when he absolutely has to.
Skulduggery Pleasant (Skulduggery Pleasant, #1)
Derek Landy
Meet Skulduggery Pleasant,
Ace Detective,Snappy Dresser,Razor–tongued Wit,Crackerjack Sorcerer,and Walking, Talking, Fire-throwing Skeleton,
—as well as ally, protector, and mentor of Stephanie Edgley, a very unusual and darkly talented twelve-year-old.
These two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil.
The end of the world?
Over his dead body.
Playing with Fire (Skulduggery Pleasant, #2)
Derek Landy
Skulduggery and Valkyrie are facing a new enemy: Baron Vengeous, who is determined to bring back the terrifying Faceless Ones and is crafting an army of evil to help him. Added to that, Vengeous is about to enlist a new ally (if he can raise it from the dead): the horrible Grotesquery, a very unlikable monster of legend.
Once Vengeous is on the loose, dead bodies and vampires start showing up all over Ireland. Now pretty much everybody is out to kill Valkyrie, and the daring detective duo faces its biggest challenge yet.
But what if the greatest threat to Valkyrie is just a little closer to home?
Look for Scepter of the Ancients
Mortal Coil (Skulduggery Pleasant, #5)
Derek Landy
Following the shocking revelations of DARK DAYS, get ready for the fifth instalment of the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series -- guaranteed to contain at least 40% humour, 50% action, and 100% thrills!
The blonde girl with the black lips turned to Valkyrie. 'We know,' she said. 'We've seen the future. We know you're going to kill the world!'
Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back -- just in time to see their whole world get turned upside down! While they struggle to protect a known killer from an unstoppable assassin, Valkyrie is on a secret mission of her own. This quest, to prevent her dark and murderous destiny, threatens to take her to the brink of death and beyond. And then the body-snatching Remnants get loose, thousands of twisted souls who possess the living like puppets, and they begin their search for a being powerful enough to lead them. Facing such insurmountable odds, Skulduggery, Valkyrie, Ghastly and Tanith can trust no one. Not even each other!
Dark Days (Skulduggery Pleasant, #4)
Derek Landy
Skulduggery Pleasant is lost on the other side of a portal, with only some evil gods for company. Can he possibly survive? (Yes, all right, he's already dead. But still.)
Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.
Oh yes. And dead.
Skulduggery Pleasant is gone, sucked into a parallel dimension overrun by the Faceless Ones. If his bones haven’t already been turned to dust, chances are he’s insane, driven out of his mind by the horror of the ancient gods. There is no official, Sanctuary-approved rescue mission. There is no official plan to save him.
But Valkyrie's never had much time for plans.
The problem is, even if she can get Skulduggery back, there might not be much left for him to return to. There’s a gang of villains bent on destroying the Sanctuary, there are some very powerful people who want Valkyrie dead, and as if all that wasn’t enough it looks very likely that a sorcerer named Darquesse is going to kill the world and everyone on it.
Skulduggery is gone. All our hopes rest with Valkyrie. The world’s weight is on her shoulders, and its fate is in her hands.
These are dark days indeed.
The Faceless Ones (Skulduggery Pleasant, #3)
Derek Landy
The third bone-breaking, belly-busting adventure in the series that puts the “funny” back in, um, funny series. That didn’t really work, did it?
If you’ve read the previous Skulduggery books then you know what the Faceless Ones are — and if you know what the Faceless Ones are, then you can probably take a wild guess that things in this book are going to get AWFULLY sticky for our skeletal hero and his young sidekick. If you haven’t read the previous Skulduggery books then what are you doing reading this? Go and read them right now, so that you know what all that stuff in the previous paragraph was about. Done? Good. So now you’re on tenterhooks too, desperately awaiting the answers to all your questions, and instead you’re going to have to wait to read the book. Sorry about that.
The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #10)
Derek Landy
When the TARDIS lands on a planet that looks identical to Earth, the Tenth Doctor and Martha are amazed to find it packed with fictional characters from her childhood. But who has the power to create an entire world out of books and why? The Doctor and Martha must solve the mystery before their story ends!
Eleven Doctors, eleven months, eleven stories: a year-long celebration of Doctor Who! The most exciting names in children's fiction each create their own unique adventure about the time-travelling Time Lord.
Hell Breaks Loose
Derek Landy
Travel back to 1703 with Skulduggery Pleasant in this standalone novel featuring all your favourite characters. So many enemies, so little time . . .
Italy, 1703.
As the war with Mevolent rages on, the Dead Men are dispatched to a walled town in the Tuscan hills – not to assassinate the Lord of the Dark Sorcerers, but to save him. A rift has opened to a hellish dimension where a being of devastating power awaits, and only Mevolent is strong enough to seal it and save the world.
A simple mission, then, which turns ever-so-slightly trickier when Skulduggery is presented with the opportunity to finally get revenge on Nefarian Serpine, the man who murdered him and killed his family thirteen years earlier.
Return to the world of Skulduggery Pleasant in a short novel set hundreds of years before Valkyrie Cain is even born, and follow Skulduggery, Ghastly, Shudder, Ravel, Saracen, Dexter and Hopeless as they argue, bicker and battle their way through an army of their most hated enemies in order to save their oldest enemy so they can stop another, brand new, enemy…
And that's when things get complicated.
The Lost Art of World Domination (Skulduggery Pleasant, #1.5)
Derek Landy
A shot of Skulduggery action for free. It isn't easy to take over the world. First you need the scheme. Then you need the muscle. Then you need to come up with a system for ruling six billion people and keeping them fron revolting. It takes a certain kind of man to take over the world. Scaramouch Van Dreg, however, is not that man. But he has one thing going for him. He has his arch enemy, Skulduggery Pleasant, chained in his dungeon, and the only person who is coming to save him is the skeleton detective's 13 year old sidekick. What could possibly go wrong?
Passage der Totenbeschwörer (Skulduggery Pleasant, #6)
Derek Landy
Wieder einmal müssen Skulduggery und Walküre die Menschheit retten. Oder besser: die Hälfte der Menschheit. Denn die Totenbeschwörer haben endlich ihren Todbringer gefunden, der ihnen allen das ewige Leben bescheren soll. Doch für diesen besonderen Zauber braucht der Todbringer sehr viel Energie. Magische Energie, die er nur durch den Tod von – sagen wir – 3,5 Milliarden Menschen gewinnen kann.
Ganz klar, dass Skulduggery und Walküre sofort zur Stelle sind, um das zu verhindern. Aber da bekommen sie Gegenwind von einer ganz unerwarteten Seite.
Duell der Dimensionen (Skulduggery Pleasant, #7)
Derek Landy
Warum haben ganz normale Sterbliche plötzlich magische Fähigkeiten? Die wenigsten können damit umgehen. Wie zum Beispiel Jerry, der sich für einen Schmetterling hält. Ausgerechnet Walküre muss ihn ständig aus der Luft holen und das nervt. Schließlich wurde sie zur Weltenretterin ausgebildet und nicht zum Babysitter für durchgeknallte Sterbliche.
Aber einige dieser Neu-Magier entwickeln so starke Kräfte, dass sie eine blutige Spur der Verwüstung durch das ganze Land ziehen.
Nur ein sehr mächtiger Zauberer kann ihnen diese unglaubliche Macht gegeben haben. Einer, der seinen wahren Namen kennt.
So wie Walküre selbst. Und er muss unbedingt gestoppt werden!
Die Rückkehr der Toten Männer (Skulduggery Pleasant, #8)
Derek Landy
Es herrscht Krieg! Doch diesmal ist es der Hohe Rat selbst, die Vereinigung aller Sanktuarien der Welt, der sich gegen die Iren wendet. Denn Irland ist eine Quelle der Magie und das weckt Begehrlichkeiten. Und so kämpfen nun Zauberer gegen Zauberer in einem sinnlosen Bruderkrieg, während im Verborgenen Hexen und Warlocks nur darauf warten, die Zauberergemeinschaft an ihrer verwundbarsten Stelle zu treffen. Aber Irland hat eine Geheimwaffe – die Toten Männer. Jene unerschrockene Truppe von Helden um Skulduggery Pleasant, die schon gegen Mevolent gekämpft haben. Und mitten unter ihnen ein neues Mitglied: Walküre Unruh, Skulduggerys erwachsen gewordene Gefährtin. Niemand ahnt, dass Walküre selbst die größte Zerstörung bringen wird ...
Das Sterben des Lichts (Skulduggery Pleasant, #9)
Derek Landy
Der Krieg der Sanktuarien ist beendet. Die Kinder der Spinne sind besiegt und die Gefahren durch Warlocks, Restanten und Totenbeschwörer sind vorerst eingedämmt. Doch der Kreis der Freunde um Skulduggery Pleasant ist kleiner geworden, und Walküre Unruh ist verschwunden. An ihrer Stelle kämpft nun Walküres Spiegelbild an Skulduggerys Seite. Aber es hat etwas entwickelt, das ein Spiegelbild niemals verspüren darf: Gefühle. Und es erhebt den Anspruch, die echte Stephanie zu sein. Derweil steht die ganze Zaubererwelt unter Spannung, denn es ist nur noch eine Frage der Zeit, wann Darquise zurückkehrt. Die mächtigste und schrecklichste Zauberin aller Zeiten, die mit der Welt spielt wie ein Kind, das sein liebstes Spielzeug zerstört und dann achtlos wegwirft. Nur wenige wissen, wer sie wirklich ist. Denn in Darquise steckt niemand anderes als Walküre ...
Auferstehung (Skulduggery Pleasant, #10)
Derek Landy
Omen Darkley ist nur ein mittelmäßiger Schüler an der Corrival-Akademie in Roarhaven. Anders als sein Zwillingsbruder Auger, der Auserwählte, der schon fast genauso viele spannende Abenteuer erlebt hat wie einst die Toten Männer. Dennoch ist es Omen, der von Skulduggery Pleasant einen Auftrag erhält. Einer seiner Lehrer hat einen Geheimbund gegründet. Und da soll Omen sich mal umhören. Nur kurz! Und ganz unauffällig, versteht sich. Und anschließend soll er schön brav weiter zu Schule gehen. Na, wenn Skulduggery seinen neuen Schüler da mal nicht unterschätzt hat!
Mitternacht (Skulduggery Pleasant, #11)
Derek Landy
Walküre hätte wirklich einen geeigneteren Baysitter finden können als ausgerechnet Omen Darkly. Nur für ein paar Stunden sollte Omen auf Walküres kleine Schwester aufpassen. Er sollte niemanden hereinlassen und möglichst nicht ans Telefon gehen. Aber als Walküre und Skulduggery nach Hause kommen, ist Alison verschwunden. Cadaverus Gant, Walküres alter Feind, hat sie entführt und exakt um 12 Uhr in der Nacht will er sie umbringen. Klar, dass Walküre alles versuchen wird, um Alison zu finden. Aber sie hat nur neun Stunden Zeit. Neun Stunden bis Mitternacht!
Rebellion der Restanten (Skulduggery Pleasant, #5)
Derek Landy
Hilfe, die Restanten sind los! Durch einen dummen Zufall konnte der Restant der Totenbeschwörer fliehen und seine Brüder und Schwestern im Hotel Mitternacht befreien. Nun nimmt die teuflische Truppe Kurs auf Dublin, wo ihre „Retterin“ weilt: Darquise, die mächtige Zauberin, die die Welt vernichten soll. Alle Magier fürchten sie, aber niemand weiß, wer sie ist. Niemand außer Walküre – denn sie ist Darquise!
Da Walküre jedoch Besseres zu tun hat, als die Welt in Schutt und Asche zu legen, will sie ihr schreckliches Schicksal ändern. Allein. Nicht einmal Skulduggery weiht sie ein. Doch wer allein kämpft, droht auch, allein zu sterben …
Sabotage im Sanktuarium (Skulduggery Pleasant, #4)
Derek Landy
Seit der großen Schlacht ist Skulduggery in der Welt der Gesichtslosen verschwunden. Nur ein Wunder kann ihn jetzt noch retten – oder Walküre: Sie muss ganz schnell seinen Kopf finden, der ihm einst von drei Kobolden in Irland gestohlen wurde. Während Walküre um die halbe Welt reist, wird der Magier Skarabäus nach 200 Jahren Gefängnis entlassen. Zwar hat er seine Zauberkräfte eingebüßt, doch seine Rachelust ist ungebrochen. Sofort schart er einen Kreis der schlimmsten Übeltäter um sich, unter ihnen auch Remus Crux, der die Seiten gewechselt hat. Sie alle können Skulduggerys Rückkehr kaum erwarten – denn jeder Einzelne von ihnen hat noch eine Rechnung mit ihm offen ...
Die Diablerie bittet zum Sterben (Skulduggery Pleasant, #3)
Derek Landy
The third bone-breaking, belly-busting adventure in the series that puts the “funny” back in, um, funny series. That didn’t really work, did it?
If you’ve read the previous Skulduggery books then you know what the Faceless Ones are — and if you know what the Faceless Ones are, then you can probably take a wild guess that things in this book are going to get AWFULLY sticky for our skeletal hero and his young sidekick. If you haven’t read the previous Skulduggery books then what are you doing reading this? Go and read them right now, so that you know what all that stuff in the previous paragraph was about. Done? Good. So now you’re on tenterhooks too, desperately awaiting the answers to all your questions, and instead you’re going to have to wait to read the book. Sorry about that.
Das Groteskerium kehrt zurück (Skulduggery Pleasant, #2)
Derek Landy
Skulduggery and Valkyrie are facing a new enemy: Baron Vengeous, who is determined to bring back the terrifying Faceless Ones and is crafting an army of evil to help him. Added to that, Vengeous is about to enlist a new ally (if he can raise it from the dead): the horrible Grotesquery, a very unlikable monster of legend.
Once Vengeous is on the loose, dead bodies and vampires start showing up all over Ireland. Now pretty much everybody is out to kill Valkyrie, and the daring detective duo faces its biggest challenge yet.
But what if the greatest threat to Valkyrie is just a little closer to home?
Look for Scepter of the Ancients
Falcon & Winter Soldier: Cut Off One Head
Derek Landy
An office of dead government agents. A gifted new killer. Two ex-Captain Americas...When a dramatic attempt on the life of Bucky Barnes reunites him with Sam Wilson, the two old friends are plunged headlong into a race to uncover the new leader of Hydra before a mass casualty event announces the terror group's resurgence to the world. The clock is ticking...
COLLECTING: FALCON & WINTER SOLDIER (2020) 1-5
Death Bringer (Skulduggery Pleasant, #6)
Derek Landy
The sixth instalment in the historic, hysterical and horrific Skulduggery Pleasant series. Think you’ve seen anything yet? You haven’t. Because the Death Bringer is about to rise…
Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.
Oh yes. And dead.
The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death Bringer, and that’s a Good Thing.
There’s just one catch. There’s a reason the Necromancers don’t need her any more. And that’s because they’ve found their Death Bringer already, the person who will dissolve the doors between life and death.
And that’s a very, very Bad Thing…
Demon Road (Demon Road, #1)
Derek Landy
Killer cars, vampires, undead serial killers: they’re all here. And the demons? Well, that’s where Amber comes in...
Sixteen years old, smart and spirited, she’s just a normal American teenager until the lies are torn away and the demons reveal themselves.
Forced to go on the run, she hurtles from one threat to another, revealing a tapestry of terror woven into the very fabric of her life. Her only chance rests with her fellow travellers, who are not at all what they appear to be…
The Hero of Drumree: Beyond the Stars
Derek Landy
A Heart Full of Hatred (Skulduggery Pleasant, #18)
Derek Landy
The bone-shaking new trilogy continues – the latest adventure in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series
Vengeance is a killer.
A killer is stalking and murdering sorcerers, and Valkyrie Cain is next on his list.
While hunting down a cult of magical terrorists intent on taking their revenge on the mortal world, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are drawn into a murder investigation with unsettling similarities to a case they just closed – the case that nearly took the lives of both Valkyrie’s sister and girlfriend.
With the body count rising, a special night approaches – a night where the elite of sorcerer society will gather on a remote island to witness a ceremony that could change that society forever.
Speeches will be made, champagne will be sipped, and two things will become terribly, distressingly clear…
No one is safe. And not everyone will make it out alive.
Bedlam (Skulduggery Pleasant, #12)
Derek Landy
The 12th explosive novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, BEDLAM will blow your mind – and change everything…
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.
Armageddon Outta Here
Derek Landy
Tanith Low in the Maleficent Seven (Skulduggery Pleasant, #7.5)
Derek Landy
Apocalypse Kings (Skulduggery Pleasant, #5.6)
Derek Landy
The End of the World (Skulduggery Pleasant, #6.5)
Derek Landy
American Monsters (Demon Road, #3)
Derek Landy
Desolation (Demon Road, #2)
Derek Landy
Resurrection (Skulduggery Pleasant, #10)
Derek Landy
The skeleton detective is coming back to life… again! It’s the tenth, triumphant novel in the Skulduggery Pleasant series, and it will rearrange your world.
Skulduggery and Valkyrie are back in the tenth instalment in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series – an incredible and unexpected treat for the legions of fans around the world.
We can’t say much but we can say this: Skulduggery and Valkyrie are going to team up with beloved characters from the first 9 books as well as an all-new cast, including new teen co-star Omen Darkly, for an adventure that takes the story to truly global proportions… while answering questions that go right back to the beginning.
And Derek says this: “I was halfway through Last Stand of Dead Men, I think, when I realised that I had more stories to tell. I told myself that if Skulduggery and Valkyrie survived the series, I would leave the option open of returning to their world. There were still secrets I need to reveal, after all, and there were still horrors they had to face. They survived the first series. But they’re really going to wish they hadn’t.”
Kingdom of the Wicked (Skulduggery Pleasant, #7)
Derek Landy
The seventh instalment in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe - and the follow-up to 2011’s number-one bestseller, Death Bringer…
Magic is a disease.
Across the land, normal people are suddenly developing wild and unstable powers. Infected by a rare strain of magic, they are unwittingly endangering their own lives and the lives of the people around them. Terrified and confused, their only hope lies with the Sanctuary. Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are needed now more than ever.
And then there's the small matter of Kitana. A normal teenage girl who, along with her normal teenage friends, becomes infected. Becomes powerful. Becomes corrupted. Wielding the magic of gods, they're set to tear the city apart unless someone stands up against them.
Looks like it's going to be another one of those days…
Last Stand of Dead Men (Skulduggery Pleasant, #8)
Derek Landy
The eighth instalment in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe - and the follow-up to 2012’s number-one bestseller, Kingdom of the Wicked…
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.
The Dying of the Light (Skulduggery Pleasant, #9)
Derek Landy
The FINAL shocking, heart-wrenching book in the jaw-droppingly stupendous Skulduggery Pleasant series
Valkyrie. Darquesse. Stephanie. The world ain’t big enough for the three of them. The end will come…
The War of the Sanctuaries has been won, but it was not without its casualties. Following the loss of Valkyrie Cain, Skulduggery Pleasant must use any and all means to track down and stop Darquesse before she turns the world into a charred, lifeless cinder.
And so he draws together a team of soldiers, monster hunters, killers, criminals… and Valkyrie’s own murderous reflection.
The war may be over, but the final battle is about to begin. And not everyone gets out of here alive…
Seasons of War (Skulduggery Pleasant, #13)
Derek Landy
The thirteenth thrilling novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, SEASONS OF WAR will test the Skeleton Detective and Valkyrie like never before…
War is coming. To avert catastrophe, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are sent on a secret mission that takes them away from everything they know, to a forsaken land of magic and grim, unrelenting terror. It is here that Valkyrie will have to fight the hardest ― not only against the enemies who want her dead, but also against her own self-destructive impulses. It's only by crawling through darkness that she'll be able to once again stand in the light…
Dead or Alive (Skulduggery Pleasant, #14)
Derek Landy
Skulduggery, Valkyrie and Omen return in the 14th and penultimate novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series - and their most epic test yet...
In a matter of days, the world will change.
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.
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.
The decision must be made, and time is running out.
Until the End
Derek Landy
The second cycle of the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series comes to a thrilling end. You are not ready…
The Faceless Ones have returned to our universe. The bad guys have won.
With the end of everything just days away – and no longer able to rely on Valkyrie Cain – Skulduggery must make allies of enemies if he's going to stand any chance of saving what's left of the world. And just when things are looking their bleakest, they manage to get even worse, with Omen Darkly suddenly having to step up when his brother, the Chosen One, falls.
There's a lot going on. Most of it is bad. Sorry about that.
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