Skulduggery Pleasant: Book 1

Derek Landy

May 2018 · Skulduggery Pleasant Book 1 · HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks · Narrated by Rupert Degas

About this audiobook

She’s twelve. He’s dead. But together they’re going to save the world. Hopefully.

The iconic first book in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series.

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, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source – the wisecracking skeleton of a dead sorcerer...

Ratings and reviews

I have the whole series and the audiobook and it is amazing. hope this book is better known and the narrator does a great job

About the author

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."