Derek Landy Books in Order

When twelve year old Stephanie Edgley inherits her uncle's fortune and eerie old house, she soon gains something stranger: a walking, talking skeleton detective. Drawn into a hidden magical Ireland, she and Skulduggery race to stop the sorcerer Serpine from unleashing an ancient weapon and the Faceless Ones.

A year after meeting Skulduggery, Valkyrie is helping hunt criminals when Baron Vengeous escapes prison with the razor wielding Billy Ray Sanguine. Armed with Lord Vile's armour and the stitched together Grotesquery, the Baron plans to summon the Faceless Ones back into the world.

The fanatical cult known as the Diablerie is close to opening a portal for the Faceless Ones using the Grotesquery's remains and the last teleporter. Skulduggery and Valkyrie chase them across Dublin and beyond, risking everything to stop a god level invasion.

After a year of searching, Valkyrie recovers Skulduggery's stolen skull and drags him back from the realm of the Faceless Ones. While a vengeful group of villains forms the Revengers' Club and plots mass murder, she learns necromancy and glimpses the True Name that could end the world.

Remnant spirits escape their prison and begin possessing sorcerers, turning friends and foes into rampaging killers. Desperate to avoid the prophecy that she will become Darquesse, Valkyrie submits to the unsettling Dr Nye, even as the last loose Remnant chooses Tanith Low as its new home.

The necromancers believe Valkyrie is destined to become the Death Bringer, a messiah who will transform life and death. When rival disciple Melancholia St Clair is unleashed and a plan emerges to sacrifice half the world, Valkyrie must face both her fate and Skulduggery's past as Lord Vile.

In this quick Skulduggery short, would be overlord Scaramouch Van Dreg finally manages to chain his skeleton nemesis in a dungeon. Armed with a supposedly unstoppable magic draining insect, he prepares to conquer the world, right up until Valkyrie arrives and everything falls apart.

Across Ireland, ordinary people suddenly manifest wild magical powers and start tearing the world apart, all linked to an imprisoned sorcerer called Argeddion. As Valkyrie and Skulduggery chase dimensional killers and power drunk teens, they are drawn into a warped parallel realm ruled by Mevolent.

Written for World Book Day, this novella follows runaway teen Ryan after a strange burn mark appears on his hand and a gang tries to abduct him. Skulduggery and Valkyrie drag him into a race to stop a Doomsday Machine and force him to question who he really is.

Magical politics collapse into open war when the Sanctuaries turn on one another and a device called the Accelerator threatens the entire human race. Skulduggery reforms the Dead Men as Valkyrie faces conspiracies, family fallout and the terrifying future hinted by Darquesse.

This spin off gives Tanith Low, possessed and delighted by it, her own starring role as leader of a villain crew. She gathers killers and monsters to steal the four God Killer weapons before anyone can use them on Darquesse, all while planning a few betrayals of her own.

A Tenth Doctor short adventure, this story lands the TARDIS on a world built from Martha's childhood mystery books. Surrounded by familiar but twisted fictional characters, the Doctor and Martha must discover who is rewriting reality before the tale traps them forever.

This collection gathers Skulduggery Pleasant short stories and novellas, plus new material, charting adventures from the Dead Men on the frontier to Valkyrie facing down vampires. It fills in hidden corners of the timeline for readers who want more chaos between the main novels.

The first Skulduggery Pleasant saga reaches its breaking point as Valkyrie's dark alter ego Darquesse moves closer to wiping out the world. Skulduggery and a battered cast of allies attempt one last, impossible gambit to save both Valkyrie and everything she loves.

In this short fantasy story, timid foot soldier Fleece marches to war against the demonic Fomorian Empire and somehow stumbles into legend. His rise as the so called Hero of Drumree forces him to decide what real bravery looks like when your sharpest weapon is your voice.

Sixteen year old Amber Lamont thinks she is just an awkward horror fan until she learns her parents are demons who plan to sacrifice her. Fleeing across America with the mysterious Milo and chatterbox Glen, she hits the Demon Road where every nightmare feels disturbingly real.

In the final Demon Road novel, Amber is bigger and meaner than ever and closing in on her murderous parents as they make a last grab for power. To survive, she and Milo must face human and supernatural killers and uncover the brutal truth about her demon family.

On the run from the Shining Demon and hunted by the Hounds of Hell, Amber Lamont and Milo head for the isolated town of Desolation Hill. It looks like a refuge, but once a year the whole town gives in to something far worse than the monsters outside.

Five years after the first saga ends, Valkyrie is back in Ireland, traumatised and trying to stay away from magic. When agent Temper Fray vanishes while spying on a group who want war with mortals, Skulduggery pulls her and schoolboy Omen Darkly into a new conspiracy.

This companion volume to Marvel's Secret Empire event gathers tie in issues that follow the resistance to Hydra's rule over the United States. Black Widow, the Champions and the Uncanny Avengers each mount dangerous missions that test what heroism looks like under a fascist regime.

When sadistic killer Cadaverous Gant kidnaps Valkyrie's little sister, he gives her until midnight to complete a chain of twisted tasks. Skulduggery and Omen race to catch up as Valkyrie fights cannibals, cursed magic and a lethal hotel built to break her.

Valkyrie defies the High Sanctuary to hunt down her sister's stolen soul, throwing herself into a lawless quest that tears at old loyalties. While Abyssinia prepares a night of horror and bloodshed, Omen Darkly is pushed into becoming the hero he never wanted to be.

This cosmic Marvel tale follows Thanos's brutal lieutenants, the Black Order, on a mission from the Grandmaster to topple a rising galactic empire. When their assassination plan unravels and Nova intervenes, new recruit Black Swan must choose between her deadly team and her own survival.

War is looming and Skulduggery, Valkyrie and the last of the Dead Men are sent on a secret mission into a forsaken, terrifying land of magic. Surrounded by monsters and old enemies, Valkyrie must fight not just to survive but to master her own self destructive impulses.

This World Book Day novella sends Skulduggery and Valkyrie undercover in a Dublin school after three imprisoned gods break loose. Disguised as teacher and pupil, they must act perfectly normal while quietly preventing the end of the world.

Billions of lives will be lost if the Child of the Faceless Ones is found and used to bring the gods back. To stop that future, Skulduggery and Valkyrie consider assassinating fanatic Damocles Creed as Roarhaven tips toward protest, riots and open rebellion.

Collecting the five issue miniseries, this book reunites Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes after an assassination attempt leaves an office full of dead agents. Together they chase a frightening new Hydra prodigy called the Natural before he can unleash a devastating mass casualty attack.

Part companion and part story, this lavish grimoire recaps the Skulduggery Pleasant saga, profiles the huge cast and maps the magic. It also hides new scenes and a dark thread of narrative, making it a treasure chest for long time fans.

In the climax of the second Skulduggery Pleasant cycle, the Faceless Ones are back and the bad guys finally seem to have the upper hand. With Valkyrie sidelined, Skulduggery and reluctant hero Omen Darkly face a last desperate fight to stop the apocalypse.

An original full colour graphic novel, Bad Magic sends Skulduggery and Valkyrie to the Irish town of Termoncara after a string of brutal deaths. There they hunt a creature that feeds on hatred and fear, uncovering buried prejudice as a monster grows stronger with every drop of blood.

Set three hundred years before the main series, this prequel follows Skulduggery and the Dead Men to a besieged Tuscan town during the war with Mevolent. Ordered to protect their most feared enemy to stop a hellish rift, they battle old foes while Skulduggery hungers for revenge on Serpine.

Six years after the universe ended and restarted, a masked sorcerer begins slaughtering mortals and leaving twisted puzzles behind. Skulduggery and Valkyrie must decipher the clues, confront the scars of the last apocalypse and stop a new chain of murders before the body count explodes.

A relentless killer is stalking sorcerers and Valkyrie is next on his list. While tracking a cult bent on punishing the mortal world, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are pulled into a murder case that leads to a lavish island ceremony where no guest can be sure of leaving alive.

Planned as the finale to the current Skulduggery Pleasant trilogy, this novel is expected to bring the story begun in A Mind Full of Murder and A Heart Full of Hatred to a dark, twist filled conclusion for Skulduggery and Valkyrie.