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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.

Skulduggery and Valkyrie are back in the 10th instalment in the best-selling Skulduggery Pleasant series, an incredible and unexpected treat for the legions of fans around the world. We can't say much, but we can say this: Skulduggery and Valkyrie are going to team up with beloved characters from the first nine books as well as an all-new cast, including new teen costar Omen Darkly, for an adventure that takes the story to truly global proportions while answering questions that go right back to the beginning.

She's 12. He's dead. But together they're going to save the world. Hopefully. The iconic first book in the best-selling Skulduggery Pleasant series. 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, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source - the wisecracking skeleton of a dead sorcerer....

Es herrscht Krieg! Doch diesmal sind es nicht die Gesichtslosen, nicht die Totenbeschwörer und auch keine durchgeknallten Zauberer, die das irische Sanktuarium bedrohen. Praktisch alle anderen Sanktuarien der Welt haben sich gegen die Iren vereint. Denn Irland ist eine Quelle der Magie, und das weckt Begehrlichkeiten. Da können nur die Toten Männer helfen. Jene unerschrockene Truppe von Helden um Skulduggery Pleasant, die schon gegen Mevolent gekämpft haben.

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.

Omen Darkly ist nur ein unscheinbarer, mittelmäßiger Schüler an der Corrival-Akademie in Roarhaven, der Metropole der Zaubererwelt. Anders als sein Zwillingsbruder Auger, der Auserwählte, der schon viele spannende Abenteuer erlebt hat. Dennoch ist es Omen, der von Skulduggery Pleasant, dem Skelettdetektiv, und Walküre Unruh einen Auftrag erhält. Einer seiner Lehrer hat einen Geheimbund gegründet, der das friedliche Nebeneinander von Zauberern und Sterblichen gefährdet.

Ganz überraschend stirbt Stephanies Onkel, der Schriftsteller Gordon Edgeley. Der geheimnisvolle Freund des Onkels, Skulduggery Pleasant, entpuppt sich als gut gekleidetes Skelett...

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.

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.

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....

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior. Oh yes. And dead. The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death Bringer, and that's a Good Thing. There's just one catch. There's a reason the Necromancers don’t need her any more - because they've found their Death Bringer already, the person who will dissolve the doors between life and death. And that’s a very, very Bad Thing....

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior. Oh yes. And dead. Skulduggery Pleasant is gone, sucked into a parallel dimension overrun by the Faceless Ones. If his bones haven’t already been turned to dust, chances are he’s insane, driven out of his mind by the horror of the ancient gods. There is no official, Sanctuary-approved rescue mission. There is no official plan to save him.

She's 12. He's dead. But together they're going to save the world. Hopefully. The third book in the best-selling Skulduggery Pleasant series. You've seen it all before: some bad guy wants to bring about the end of the world. A few people get hurt, sure, but everything's all right in the end. Well...not this time.

She's 12. He's dead. But together they're going to save the world. Hopefully. The second book in the best-selling Skulduggery Pleasant series. Vengeous. Dusk. Sanguine. Three of the deadliest killers alive are in town to resurrect an unstoppable creature of horrifying power. And only Skulduggery and Valkyrie stand in their way.

Skulduggery ist in der Welt der Gesichtslosen verschwunden. Nur ein Wunder kann ihn jetzt noch retten - oder Walküre...

Books one, two and three in the Skulduggery Pleasant series - known collectively as the Faceless Ones Trilogy, Derek Landy's fantastically imaginative series about our favourite dead detective.

Fulminantes Finale! Der Krieg der Sanktuarien ist beendet. Doch der Kreis der Freunde um Skulduggery ist kleiner geworden und Walküre ist verschwunden. An ihrer Stelle kämpft ihr Spiegelbild an Skulduggerys Seite. Aber es hat etwas entwickelt, das ein Spiegelbild niemals verspüren darf: Gefühle. Derweil steht die ganze Zaubererwelt unter Spannung, denn es ist nur noch eine Frage der Zeit, wann Darquise zurückkehrt.

Nein, ein normales Leben führt die 13-jährige Stephanie Edgley nicht. Denn Stephanie und Skulduggery sind aufs Neue mit Feuereifer im Einsatz...

Die Gesichtslosen sind in unsere Wirklichkeit zurückgekehrt. Der neue Oberste Magier Damocles Creed kontrolliert mit seiner Kirche von Irland aus die Sanktuarien der ganzen Welt. In den USA bereitet ein korrupter Präsident mithilfe durchgeknallter Zauberer seine Wiederwahl vor. Und was Auger Darkly vorhat, der frühere Auserwählte, der die Seiten gewechselt hat, wissen die Götter. Tja, es sieht so aus, als hätten die Bösen gewonnen.

Ein Serienkiller treibt sein Unwesen in Roarhaven und Umgebung. Die Opfer verbindet auf den ersten Blick nichts miteinander, außer die sehr fantasievolle, detailverliebte Todesart. Skulduggery und Walküre tappen im Dunkeln, aber dann erhalten sie eine codierte Nachricht vom Täter. Der Mörder nennt sich "Ersatz" und will die Detektive offenbar testen.