SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT

PLAYING WITH FIRE Book 2

by DEREK LANDY

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New softcover book, published 2008, 352 pages. Suitable for children aged 9 and older

Just when you think you’ve saved the world…

You know how it is - you think you've saved the world, and then ANOTHER evil villain turns up with an unbeatable monster and starts breaking things.

Oh yes, and you've got a skull for a head. A thirteen-year-old girl for a sidekick. And no clue what to do ...

You will kill her? the Torment asked.

Skulduggery sagged. Yes.

He hesitated, then took his gun from his jacket. I'm sorry, Valkyrie, he said softly.

Don't talk to me, Valkyrie said. Just do what you have to do. She parted her tunic, and Skulduggery pointed the gun at the vest beneath.

Please forgive me, Skulduggery said, then aimed the gun at the girl and pulled the trigger.

With Serpine dead, the world is safe once more. At least, that's what Valkyrie (formerly known as Stephanie) and Skulduggery think, until the notorious Baron Vengeous makes a bloody escape from prison, and dead bodies and vampires start showing up all over Ireland. With Baron Vengeous after the deadly armour of Lord Vile, and pretty much everyone out to kill Valkyrie, the daring detective duo face their biggest challenge yet. But what if the greatest threat to Valkyrie is just a little closer to home!?

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 Playing with Fire: Book 2 in the series by Derek Landy