Skulduggery Pleasant 05. Mortal Coil

Valkyrie is struggeling to protect her dark secret - and Skulduggery and the gang are more vulnerable than ever, just as a plague of body-snatching Remnants are released upon the world...

Informationen zum Autor Derek Landy lives near Dublin. Before writing his children's story about a sharply-dressed skeleton detective, he wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a murderous horror film. "I think my career-guidance teacher is spinning in her grave," he says, "or she would be if she were dead." Klappentext The fifth instalment in the thrilling! hilarious and bestselling series. Crime fighting skeleton extraordinaire! Skulduggery Pleasant! and his assistant Valkyrie Cain! return just in time to see their whole world turned upside-down. While they struggle to protect a known killer from an unstoppable assassin! Valkyrie is on a secret mission of her own: a quest to prevent her dark and murderous destiny. Meanwhile! the body-snatching Remnants. twisted souls who possess the living like puppets! get loose. Facing such insurmountable odds! Skulduggery and Valkyrie can trust no one! not even each other... Zusammenfassung Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior. Oh yeah. And dead.

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Derek Landy lives near Dublin. Before writing his children's story about a sharply-dressed skeleton detective, he wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a murderous horror film. "I think my career-guidance teacher is spinning in her grave," he says, "or she would be if she were dead."

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The fifth instalment in the thrilling, hilarious and bestselling series. Crime fighting skeleton extraordinaire, Skulduggery Pleasant, and his assistant Valkyrie Cain, return just in time to see their whole world turned upside-down. While they struggle to protect a known killer from an unstoppable assassin, Valkyrie is on a secret mission of her own: a quest to prevent her dark and murderous destiny. Meanwhile, the body-snatching Remnants. twisted souls who possess the living like puppets, get loose. Facing such insurmountable odds, Skulduggery and Valkyrie can trust no one, not even each other...

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Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior. Oh yeah. And dead.