SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT

MORTAL COIL Book 5

by DEREK LANDY

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New softcover book, 320 pages. Suitable for children aged 9 and older

Skulduggery Pleasant is back, and reunited with his original head. But all is not well in the magical world - for one thing, foreign powers are conspiring to take over the Irish Sanctuary, and for another thing, Valkyrie has discovered she might be the sorceress set to destroy the world. The problem is, she doesn't feel she can tell Skulduggery what she's learned ... and that's how all the trouble starts.

With Valkyrie on a quest of her own, to seal her name and prevent her evil destiny from coming to pass, Skulduggery and the gang are even more vulnerable. Which is a shame, because remember those thousands of remnants, imprisoned in the Midnight Hotel? Well, now they're out. Not only that but they believe Valkyrie is their messiah. And that means thousands of wicked souls, desperate to get to Valkyrie, willing to kill anyone in their way! Oh, and because they can possess any body, they could be ANYONE.

Now Skulduggery, Valkyrie, Ghastly and Tanith can trust no one. Not even each other!

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 Mortal Coil: Book 5 in the series by Derek Landy