Détective sarcastique, magisien puissant, expert en coups fourrés et roi de la cambriole (tout ça pour la bonne cause, bien sûr!), Skully est aussi très élégant et ne roule qu'en Bentley. Un détail: il est le squelette vivant d'un magicien mort quatre cents ans plus tôt! Ses aventures et celles de sa jeune protégée de quatorze ans, Stéphanie, sont un régal et sont traduites de l'anglais dans plus de vingt langues. Suivez les aventures de ces personnages irrésistibles dans une histoire aussi sombre et palpitante, au ton caustique et aux dialogues savoureux.
Le baron Vengeous s'est évadé ! Huit ans après l'avoir arrêté, Skully Fourbery se lance de nouveau à la poursuite de son vieil ennemi, aidé de Valkyrie, sa brillante apprentie. Ils doivent à tout prix retrouver le Baron avant qu'il ne s'empare de l'armure mortelle de Lord Vile, qui recèle de terrifiants pouvoirs...
Retrouvez Skully Fourbery, le squelette détective, et son associée, Valkyrie, dans une troisième aventure explosive! Si Skully Fourbery n'empêche pas les Sans-Visage, d'abominables créatures des ténèbres, de revenir sur Terre, c'est la catastrophe assurée pour l'humanité ! Mais le plus grand danger semble être celui que court Valkyrie, sa ?dèle complice...
Skully Fourbery a disparu, aspiré dans une dimension parallèle contrôlée par les Sans-Visage. Peut-il survivre à ces abominables créatures? Mais surtout, question plus inquiétante, le monde peut-il survivre sans lui? Valkyrie, sa jeune complice, échafaude une mission sauvetage...
Retrouvez Skully Fourbery, le détective squelette, le magicien tout feu tout flamme toujours prêt à sauver le monde!
Meet the great 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. Then there's his sidekick, Stephanie. She's! well, she's a twelve-year-old girl. With a pair like this on the case, evil had better watch out!
The 12th explosive novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, BEDLAM will blow your mind - and change everything... On a desperate journey to recover her sister''s lost soul, Valkyrie Cain goes up against the High Sanctuary itself, and there''s nothing Skulduggery Pleasant can do to stop her. With Abyssinia''s grand plan about to kick off in a night of magic, terror, and bloodshed, it falls to Omen Darkly to save the lives of thousands of innocent people. And as the madness unfolds around him, as hidden enemies step into the light, and as Valkyrie is sucked into a desperate, lawless quest of her own, he has no choice but to become the hero he never really wanted to be - or die in the attempt.
The ninth book in the original, jaw-droppingly stupendous Skulduggery Pleasant series. Valkyrie. Darquesse. Stephanie. The world ain''t big enough for the three of them. The end will come... The War of the Sanctuaries has been won, but it was not without its casualties. Following the loss of Valkyrie Cain, Skulduggery Pleasant must use any and all means to track down and stop Darquesse before she turns the world into a charred, lifeless cinder. And so he draws together a team of soldiers, monster hunters, killers, criminals... and Valkyrie''s own murderous reflection. The war may be over, but the final battle is about to begin. And not everyone gets out of here alive...
The eighth instalment in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe - and the follow-up to the number-one bestseller, Kingdom of the Wicked...
Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back in their most gripping story yet, as book 11, Midnight, picks up where Resurrection left off - and runs. For years, Valkyrie Cain has struggled to keep her loved ones safe from harm, plunging into battle - time and time again - by Skulduggery Pleasant''s side, and always emerging triumphant. But now the very thing that Valkyrie fights for is in danger, as a ruthless killer snatches her little sister in order to lure Valkyrie into a final confrontation. With Skulduggery racing to catch up and young sorcerer Omen scrambling along behind, Valkyrie only has twelve hours to find Alice before it''s too late. The clock is ticking...
The thirteenth thrilling novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, SEASONS OF WAR will test the Skeleton Detective and Valkyrie like never before... War is coming. To avert catastrophe, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are sent on a secret mission that takes them away from everything they know, to a forsaken land of magic and grim, unrelenting terror. It is here that Valkyrie will have to fight the hardest - not only against the enemies who want her dead, but also against her own self-destructive impulses.It''s only by crawling through darkness that she''ll be able to once again stand in the light...
The second cycle of the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series comes to a thrilling end. You are not ready...
The Faceless Ones have returned to our universe. The bad guys have won.
With the end of everything just days away - and no longer able to rely on Valkyrie Cain - Skulduggery must make allies of enemies if he''s going to stand any chance of saving what''s left of the world. And just when things are looking their bleakest, they manage to get even worse, with Omen Darkly suddenly having to step up when his brother, the Chosen One, falls.
There''s a lot going on. Most of it is bad. Sorry about that.
The epic conclusion in the mind-blowing supernatural thriller from bestselling author DEREK LANDY, creator of international sensation Skulduggery Pleasant. Bigger, meaner, stronger, Amber closes in on her murderous parents as they make one last desperate play for power. Her own last hopes of salvation, however, rest beyond vengeance, beyond the abominable killers - living and dead - that she and Milo will have to face. For Amber''s future lies in her family''s past, in the brother and sister she never knew, and the horrors beyond imagining that befell them.
Following the shocking revelations of DARK DAYS, get ready for the fifth instalment of the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series -- guaranteed to contain at least 40% humour, 50% action, and 100% thrills!
It's the fourth Skulduggery Pleasant adventure! only Skulduggery Pleasant himself is lost on the other side of a portal, with only some evil gods for company. Can he possible survive? (Yes, all right, he's already dead. But still.)
Skulduggery, Valkyrie and Omen return in the 14th and penultimate novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series - and their most epic test yet...
In a matter of days, the world will change.
Billions of lives will be wiped away in a final, desperate search for the Child of the Faceless Ones - she who is destined to bring about the return of humankind''s ancient overlords.
To prevent this, Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain have one last - terrible - option: the assassination of Damocles Creed. With protests stirring in the magical city of Roarhaven, with riots and revolutions on the horizon, Valkyrie must decide who she wants to be: the hero who risks everything for a noble ideal, or the killer who sacrifices her own soul for the fate of humanity.
The decision must be made, and time is running out.
A brand new Skulduggery Pleasant novella for World Book Day: a hilarious and thrilling standalone story in the internationally bestselling series - perfect for new readers, and essential for Skulduggery fans...
Three ancient gods are freed from their prison with only one desire: to destroy the planet and everyone on it.
To save us all, Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain must go undercover in a Dublin school. Skulduggery has to blend in with the teaching staff, while Valkyrie has to pass for an ordinary schoolgirl. Above all else, no matter what happens, they both must act completely and utterly normal.
We are so dead.
THE EPIC NEW THRILLER BEGINS. The creator of the number one bestselling SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT series returns with the story of a girl on the run from everything she loves... and the monsters that await her. For anyone who ever thought their parents were monsters... Amber Lamont is a normal sixteen-year-old. Smart but insecure, she spends most of her time online, where she can avoid her beautiful, aloof parents and their weird friends. But when a shocking encounter reveals a horrifying secret, Amber is forced to go on the run. Killer cars, vampires, undead serial killers and red-skinned, horned demons - Amber hurtles from one threat to the next, revealing the terror woven into the very fabric of her life. As her parents close in behind her, Amber''s only chance rests with her fellow travellers, who are not at all what they appear to be... Witty, action-packed and heart-stoppingly thrilling, Demon Road will take you on an epic road-trip across the supernatural landscape of America.
