SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT 1: SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT PB B FORMAT – DEREK LANDY

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… “So you won t keep anything from me again? He put his hand to his chest. Cross my heart and hope to die. Okay then. Though you don t actually have a heart, she said. I know. And technically, you ve already died. I know that too. Just so we re clear. 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 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, it s lucky for Skulduggery that he s already dead. Though he s about to discover that being a skeleton doesn t stop you from being tortured, if the torturer is determined enough. And if there s anything Skulduggery hates, it s torture… Will evil win the day? Will Stephanie and Skulduggery stop bickering long enough to stop it? One thing s for sure: evil won t know what s hit it.