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Skulduggery Pleasant #5: Mortal Coil Award-winning by Derek Landy (author) (UK edition)

Mortal Coil

Suitable for 11 - 18 years

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Following the shocking revelations of Dark Days, get ready for episode five of our skeleton sleuth’s adventures – guaranteed to be packed with bone-splintering thrills! Skulduggery Pleasant is back, and reunited with his original head. But all is not well in the magical world. Foreign powers are conspiring to take over the Irish Sanctuary. Meanwhile, our plucky heroine Valkyrie has discovered she might be the sorceress set to destroy the world. The problem is, she doesn’t feel she can tell Skulduggery! With Valkyrie on a secret quest to prevent her own evil destiny, Skulduggery and the gang are a warrior short. Which is a shame, because remember those thousands of remnants imprisoned in the Midnight Hotel? Well, now they’re out – and they believe Valkyrie is their messiah. That means thousands of wicked souls desperate to get to Valkyrie, willing to kill anyone in their way! Oh, and because they can possess anybody’s body, they could be ANYONE. Now Skulduggery, Valkyrie, Ghastly and Tanith can trust no one. Not even each other!

Product Details

Series

Skulduggery Pleasant (book 5)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780007326013

Publisher

HarperCollins

Date published

March 31st, 2011

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 4.7; Middle years plus; 15.0 points

Other details

  • 604 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

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Part of this Series

Skulduggery Pleasant Skulduggery Pleasant

Author/Illustrator

Derek Landy

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Derek Landy is the author of the bestselling, awardwinning Skulduggery books – the funniest dead detective ever!

Before writing his children’s story about a sharply-dressed skeleton detective, Derek wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a murderous thriller in which everybody dies.

As a black belt in Kenpo Karate he has taught countless children how to defend themselves, in the hopes of building his own private munchkin army. He firmly believes that they await his call to strike against his enemies (he doesn’t actually have any enemies, but he’s assuming they’ll show up, sooner or later).

Derek lives on the outskirts of Dublin, and the reason he writes his own biography blurb is so that he can finally refer to himself in the third person without looking pompous or insane.

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  1. AngelofDeath
    on 8 March 2014

    Great, absolutely amazing.

  2. skulduggerypleasantrules
    on 15 January 2014

    This book is cool but I still wish Tanith was good.

    5out of 5

  3. lap312i
    on 8 March 2013

    i love the blurb and the cover is so cool

  4. Nashdasher
    on 8 March 2013

    This book grips you and is not to scary I also like the adventure.

  5. MSK
    on 6 March 2013

    This Book is excellent! It is funny, sad, has loads of fighting scenes and makes you want to Torture Derek Landy – then again every book makes you want to kill him but this one especially, until you think about Death Bringer, but Death Bringer comes after it, so it doesn’t count!:) Anyway I have been Rambling an awful lot so back with the review -Clears Throat_ I recommend this book for any age.

    5out of 5

  6. dashernasher
    on 7 March 2012

    this is the one the books after are based around an amazing book.

    5out of 5