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Skulduggery Pleasant is a series of dark fantasy novels written by Irish author Derek Landy.Tom Percival is the series' illustrator. The books revolve around the adventures of fledgling detective Valkyrie Cain and her mentor Skulduggery Pleasant, along with other friends and allies.
The story follows the characters Skulduggery Pleasant — a skeleton, sorcerer and detective — and his partner Stephanie Edgley, who also goes by Valkyrie Cain. They and their numerous magic-wielding allies try to prevent the necromancer Nefarian Serpine from unleashing a powerful weapon called The Sceptre of Ancients.
One year after the events of the previous novel, Valkyrie Cain is working with Skulduggery Pleasant to capture villains on the behalf of the Sanctuary. When Baron Vengeous is broken out of prison by another villain, Billy-Ray Sanguine, he begins searching for the armour of Lord Vile.
The story follows sorcerer-detectives Valkyrie Cain and Skulduggery Pleasant as they deal with emergence of the Death Bringer, Darquesse, and the return of Lord Vile. The book was released in the US and Canada in 2018. [1] HarperCollins Audio publishes the unabridged CD sets of the books read by Rupert Degas.
A group of necromancers agree that Valkyrie Cain is the prophesied Death Bringer, also known as Darquesse, and decide to read the future to learn more about her fate. Skulduggery and Valkyrie capture the traitor Davina Marr, who destroyed the Sanctuary in the previous book. Valkyrie then visits her dead uncle to ask how to control her True Name ...
The book takes place a five years after The Dying of the Light.In addition to continuing the story of the now 24-year-old Valkyrie Cain, the novel introduces Omen Darkly, a younger main character (included at Landy's publisher's request to make the series a little closer to a children's series) whose subplot storylines over the following six books satirises the Harry Potter series by J. K ...
The story follows sorcerer-detectives Valkyrie Cain and Skulduggery Pleasant as they work to uncover the conspiracy behind the war between the Sanctuaries. Meanwhile, Valkyrie's alter-ego, Darquesse , is on the verge of bringing about the end of the world.
The story follows the sorcerers and detectives Valkyrie Cain and Skulduggery Pleasant and numerous magic-wielding allies as they try to prevent Batu and the Diablerie from using the remains of the Grotesquery and the last teleporter to return the Faceless Ones to the world.