Skulduggery Pleasant

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.

This is the first instalment of the Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy. Read all books in the series in order:

1. Skulduggery Pleasant,
2. Playing with Fire,
3. The Faceless Ones,
4. Dark Days,
5. Mortal Coil,
6. Death Bringer,
7. Kingdom of the Wicked,
8. Last Stand of Dead Men,
9. The Dying of the Light,
10. Ressurrection,
11. Midnight,
12. Bedlam.