SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT

DARK DAYS Book 4

by DEREK LANDY

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New softcover book, published 2010, 416 pages. Suitable for children aged 9 and older

"Valkyrie turned to the portal. The wind whipped her hair. She ran, straight into the yellow ...."

Skulduggery Pleasant is gone, sucked into a parallel dimension. There is no official, Sanctuary-approved plan to save him. But Valkyrie's never had much time for plans anyway.

What else can we say, without giving too much away? Not much, is the answer. But what we CAN say is that this book is hilarious, it's tense, and it's packed with all the eye-popping action, crackling one liners and imaginative set pieces you've come to expect. There's a new threat to our plucky heroine, of course. But that's not all. There's also the little fact of the Big Bad, the uber-baddy who's going to come along and really, really destroy the world. (Really.) And what we learn about that villain in this book will literally make your jaw fall off and your hair go white with shock. (Not really.)

Will Skulduggery make it out of the Faceless Ones' dimension? Who knows.

The problem is, he may not have much to come back to!

About the author

Derek Landy was born in born 1973 in Ireland and lives near Dublin. He attended Drogheda Grammar School during his childhood years and has a black belt in kenpo karate. Before writing his bestselling children′s series about a sharply-dressed skeleton detective, he wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a murderous horror film in which everybody dies. ′I think my career-guidance teacher is spinning in her grave,′ he says, ′or she would be if she were dead.′ Skulduggery Pleasant won the illustrious Red House Children's Book Award in 2008, with children voting for the winning novel.

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Skulduggery Pleasant Dark Days: Book 4 in the series by Derek Landy