Dead or Alive
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. With protests stirring in the magical city of Roarhaven, with riots and revolutions on the horizon, Valkyrie must decide who she wants to be: the hero who risks everything for a noble ideal, or the killer who sacrifices her own soul for the fate of humanity.
The decision must be made, and time is running out.
About the Skulduggery Pleasant Series
Books in series order
- 1.Skulduggery Pleasant (Scepter of the Ancients)(2007)
- 2.Playing with Fire(2008)
- 3.The Faceless Ones(2009)
- 4.Dark Days(2010)
- 5.Mortal Coil(2010)
- 6.Death Bringer(2011)
- 7.Kingdom of the Wicked(2012)
- 8.Last Stand of Dead Men(2013)
- 9.The Dying of the Light(2014)
- 10.Resurrection(2017)
- 11.Midnight(2018)
- 12.Bedlam(2019)
- 13.Seasons of War(2020)
- 14.Dead or Alive(2021)
- 15.Until the End(2022)
- 16.A Mind Full of Murder(2024)
- 17.A Heart Full of Hatred(2025)
- +Apocalypse Kings(2021)
- +Armageddon Outta Here(2014)
- +Gold, Babies and the Brothers Muldoon(2008)
- +Hell Breaks Loose(2023)
- +Tanith Low in the Maleficent Seven(2013)
- +The End of the World(2012)
- +The Lost Art of World Domination(2007)
Reading age: 10+ years
This series should be read in order.
Meet Skulduggery Pleasant:
Ace Detective
Snappy Dresser
Razor-tongued Wit
Crackerjack Sorcerer
and Walking, Talking,
Fire-throwing Skeleton.
He also happens to be the ally, protector, and mentor of Stephanie Edgley, a very unusual and darkly talented twelve-year-old girl.
These two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil. The end of the world? Over his dead body.