SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT

Book 1

by DEREK LANDY

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New softcover book, published 2007, 384 pages.

Buffy meets Dr Who meets Ghostbusters in this thrilling new book you won't want to put down!

So you won′t keep anything from me again?

He put his hand to his chest. Cross my heart and hope to die.

Okay then. Though you don′t actually have a heart, she said.

I know.

And technically, you′ve already died.

I know that too.

Just so we′re clear.

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant; wise cracking detective, powerful magician, master of dirty tricks and burglary (in the name of the greater good, of course), oh yeah, and dead!

Stephanie′s uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn′t fiction. Pursued by evil forces intent on recovering a mysterious key, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source - the wisecracking skeleton of a dead wizard.

When all hell breaks loose, it′s lucky for Skulduggery that he′s already dead. Though he′s about to discover that being a skeleton doesn′t stop you from being tortured, if the torturer is determined enough. And if there′s anything Skulduggery hates, it′s torture... Will evil win the day? Will Stephanie and Skulduggery stop bickering long enough to stop it? One thing′s for sure: evil won′t know what′s hit it.

Suitable for children aged 9 and older

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 Book 1 by Derek Landy