Skulduggery Pleasant Series 9 Books Collection Box Set

Skulduggery Pleasant

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 theres his sidekick, Stephanie. Shes! well, shes a twelve-year-old girl. With a pair like this on the case, evil had better watch out! "So you wont keep anything from me again?" He put his hand to his chest. "Cross my heart and hope to die." "Okay then. Though you dont actually have a heart," she said. "I know." "And technically, youve already died." "I know that too." "Just so were clear." Stephanies 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 wasnt 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, its lucky for Skulduggery that hes already dead. Though hes about to discover that being a skeleton doesnt stop you from being tortured, if the torturer is determined enough. And if theres anything Skulduggery hates, its torture! Will evil win the day? Will Stephanie and Skulduggery stop bickering long enough to stop it? One things for sure: evil wont know whats hit it.

Playing with Fire

Just when you think youve saved the world! "You will kill her?" the Torment asked. Skulduggery sagged. "Yes." He hesitated, then took his gun from his jacket. "Im sorry, Valkyrie," he said softly. "Dont talk to me," Valkyrie said. "Just do what you have to do." Valkyrie parted her tunic, and Skulduggery pointed the gun at the vest beneath. "Please forgive me," Skulduggery said, then aimed the gun at the girl and pulled the trigger. With Serpine dead, the world is safe once more. At least, thats what Valkyrie and Skulduggery think, until the notorious Baron Vengeous makes a bloody escape from prison, and dead bodies and vampires start showing up all over Ireland. With Baron Vengeous after the deadly armour of Lord Vile, and pretty much everyone out to kill Valkyrie, the daring detective duo face their biggest challenge yet. But what if the greatest threat to Valkyrie is just a little closer to home!?

The Faceless Ones

Third bone-breaking, belly-busting adventure in the series that puts the "funny" back in! um! funny series. That didnt really work, did it? If youve read the previous Skulduggery books then you know what the Faceless Ones are -- and if you know what the Faceless Ones are, then you can probably take a wild guess that things in this book are going to get AWFULLY sticky for our skeletal hero and his young sidekick. If you havent read the previous Skulduggery books then what are you doing reading this? Go and read them right now, so that you know what all that stuff in the previous paragraph was about. Done? Good. So now youre on tenterhooks too, desperately awaiting the answers to all your questions, and instead youre going to have to wait to read the book. Sorry about that.

Dark Days

Its 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, hes already dead. But still.) What can we say, without giving too much away? Not much, is the answer. But what we CAN say is that this book is hilarious, its tense, and its packed with all the eye-popping action, crackling one liners and imaginative set pieces youve come to expect. Theres a new threat to our plucky heroine, of course. But thats not all. Theres also the little fact of the Big Bad, the uber-baddy whos going to come along and really, really destroy the world. (Really.) And what we learn about that villain in this book will literally make your jaw fall off and your hair go white with shock. (Not really.) Will Skulduggery make it out of the Faceless Ones dimension? Who knows. The problem is, he may not have much to come back to! 

Mortal Coil

While they struggle to protect a known killer from an unstoppable assassin, Valkyrie is on a secret mission of her own. This quest, to prevent her dark and murderous destiny, threatens to take her to the brink of death and beyond. And then the body-snatching Remnants get loose, thousands of twisted souls who possess the living like puppets, and they begin their search for a being powerful enough to lead them. Facing such insurmountable odds, Skulduggery, Valkyrie, Ghastly and Tanith can trust no one. Not even each other.

Death Bringer

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior. Oh yes. And dead. The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death Bringer, and thats a good thing. Theres just one catch. Theres a reason the Necromancers dont need her any more - because theyve found their Death Bringer already, the person who will dissolve the doors between life and death. And thats a very, very bad thing...

Kingdom of the Wicked

The seventh instalment in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe. Magic is a disease. Across the land, normal people are suddenly developing wild and unstable powers. Infected by a rare strain of magic, they are unwittingly endangering their own lives and the lives of the people around them Terrified and confused, their only hope lies with the Sanctuary. Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are needed now more than ever. And then theres the small matter of Kitana. A normal teenage girl who, along with her normal teenage friends, becomes infected. Becomes powerful. Becomes corrupted. Wielding the magic of gods, theyre set to tear the city apart unless someone stands up against them. Looks like its going to be another one of those days.

Last Stand of Dead Men

War has finally come. But its not a war between good and evil, or light and dark - its a war between Sanctuaries. For too long, the Irish Sanctuary has teetered on the brink of world-ending disaster, and the other Sanctuaries around the world have had enough. Allies turn to enemies, friends turn to foes, and Skulduggery and Valkyrie must team up with the rest of the dead men if theyre going to have any chance at all maintaining the balance of power and getting to the root of a vast conspiracy that has been years in the making.

The Dying of the Light

The FINAL shocking, heart-wrenching book in the jaw-droppingly stupendous Skulduggery Pleasant series. Valkerie. Darquesse. Stephanie. The world aint 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 Valkyries own murderous reflection. The war may be over, but the final battle is about to begin. And not everyone gets out of here alive.