Derek Landy

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2007
  • Latest Book:
    July 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Demon Road Trilogy

1 - Demon Road (Feb-2016)
2 - Desolation (Aug-2016)
3 - American Monsters (Mar-2017)

Skulduggery Pleasant

1 - Skulduggery Pleasant (Apr-2007)
1 - Scepter of the Ancients (May-2009)
2 - Playing with Fire (May-2008)
3 - The Faceless Ones (Sep-2009)
4 - Dark Days (Apr-2010)
5 - Mortal Coil (Sep-2010)
6 - Death Bringer (Sep-2011)
7 - Kingdom of the Wicked (Aug-2012)
8 - Last Stand of Dead Men (Aug-2013)
9 - The Dying of the Light (Aug-2014)
10 - Resurrection (Jun-2017)
11 - Midnight (Jun-2018)
12 - Bedlam (Jun-2019)
13 - Seasons of War (Apr-2020)
14 - Dead or Alive (Apr-2021)
15 - Until the End (Jul-2022)
16 - A Mind Full of Murder (May-2024)
17 - Skulduggery Pleasant Book #17 (Jul-2025)
The Maleficent Seven (Mar-2013)
The Lost Art of World Domination (Jun-2018)

Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • Skulduggery Pleasant

    Skulduggery Pleasant - 1

    Stephanie led a pretty quiet existence until her uncle died. Not only did he leave her his mansion, he left her a new best friend -- Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton detective (sorry, a supernatural skeleton detective) -- who waltzes into her life fo...

  • Playing with Fire

    Skulduggery Pleasant - 2

    The Grotesquery Is Rising Valkyrie Cain -- once known to the world as twelve-year-old Stephanie Edgley -- has learned a great deal since beginning her apprenticeship to Skulduggery Pleasant, the well-dressed living-dead wizard-detective. But she h...

  • Scepter of the Ancients

    Skulduggery Pleasant - 1

    Meet Skulduggery Pleasant-- Ace Detective, Snappy Dresser, Razor-tongued Wit, Crackerjack Sorcerer, and Walking, Talking, Fire-throwing Skeleton --as well as ally, protector, and mentor of Stephanie Edgley, a very unusual and darkly talented tw...

  • The Faceless Ones

    Skulduggery Pleasant - 3

    Valkyrie screamed, sprinting toward Skulduggery. He looked up and reached out to her, but it was too late. f you've read the other Skulduggery books by Derek Landy (and you really should have read them by now), you've seen it all before: Some b...

  • Dark Days

    Skulduggery Pleasant - 4

    Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.Oh yes. And dead.Skulduggery Pleasant is gone, sucked into a parallel dimension overrun by the Faceless Ones. If his bones haven’t already been turned to dust, chances are he’s insane, drive...

  • Mortal Coil

    Skulduggery Pleasant - 5

    Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.Oh yes. And dead.Skulduggery Pleasant is back, and reunited with his original head. But all is not well in the magical world â€" for one thing, foreign powers are conspiring to take over the Iri...

  • Death Bringer

    Skulduggery Pleasant - 6

    Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.Oh yes. And dead.The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death Bringer, and that’s a Good Thing.There’s just one catch. There’s a reason the Necromancers don’t need her any ...

  • Kingdom of the Wicked

    Skulduggery Pleasant - 7

    The seventh installment in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe... Magic is a disease. Across the land, normal people are suddenly developing wild and unstable powers. Infected by a rare strain of ma...

  • The Maleficent Seven

    Skulduggery Pleasant

    This time, the bad guys take the stage. Tanith Low, now possessed by a remnant, recruits a gang of villains - many of whom will be familiar from previous Skulduggery adventures - in order to track down and steal the four God-Killer level weapons that...



  • Last Stand of Dead Men

    Skulduggery Pleasant - 8

    The eighth instalment in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe â€" and the follow-up to 2012’s number-one bestseller, Kingdom of the Wicked…War has finally come.But it's not a war between good and ev...

  • The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage: Tenth Doctor

    Eleven Doctors, eleven months, eleven stories: a year-long celebration of Doctor Who! The most exciting names in children's fiction each create their own unique adventure about the time-travelling Time Lord.When the TARDIS lands on a planet that look...

  • The Dying of the Light

    Skulduggery Pleasant - 9

    The ninth book in the original, jaw-droppingly stupendous Skulduggery Pleasant series.Valkyrie. Darquesse. Stephanie. The world ain’t big enough for the three of them. The end will come…The War of the Sanctuaries has been won, but it was not with...

  • The Hero of Drumree

    A short story taken from the Fighting Words charity collection, BEYOND THE STARS, written and illustrated by two of the most outstanding talents in children’s fiction todayWhen Fleece, one of the foot soldiers of the valiant Hibernian Army, whose c...

  • Demon Road

    The Demon Road Trilogy - 1

    THE EPIC NEW THRILLER BEGINS.The creator of the number one bestselling SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT series returns with the story of a girl on the run from everything she loves. and the monsters that await her.For anyone who ever thought their parents were m...

  • Desolation

    The Demon Road Trilogy - 2

    THE EPIC NEW THRILLER CONTINUES.Book two in the mind-blowing new supernatural thriller from bestselling author DEREK LANDY, creator of international sensation Skulduggery Pleasant.Reeling from their bloody encounter in New York City at the end of Dem...

  • American Monsters

    The Demon Road Trilogy - 3

    The epic conclusion in the mind-blowing supernatural thriller from bestselling author DEREK LANDY, creator of international sensation Skulduggery Pleasant.Bigger, meaner, stronger, Amber closes in on her murderous parents as they make one last desper...

  • Resurrection

    Skulduggery Pleasant - 10

    The skeleton detective is coming back to life… again! It’s the tenth, triumphant novel in the Skulduggery Pleasant series, and it will rearrange your world.Skulduggery and Valkyrie are back in the tenth instalment in the bestselling Skulduggery P...

  • Secret Empire: United We Stand

    A crucial companion volume that expands on the events in Secret Empire! A new world order has arrived, but it's not one that everybody agrees with. Not by a long shot! But what can be done about it? Prepare for the reign, the resistance...and the rev...

  • The Lost Art of World Domination

    Skulduggery Pleasant

    A shot of Skulduggery action.It isn’t easy to take over the world. First you need the scheme. Then you need the muscle. Then you need to come up with a system for ruling six billion people and keeping them from revolting. It takes a certain kind of...



  • Midnight

    Skulduggery Pleasant - 11

    Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back in their most gripping story yet, as book 11, Midnight, picks up where Resurrection left off â€" and runs.For years, Valkyrie Cain has struggled to keep her loved ones safe from harm, plunging into batt...

  • Black Order: The Warmasters of Thanos

    Collects Black Order #1-5. They are the scourge of the Avengers, the Cull Obsidian -- Thanos’ most feared warriors! Now the ruthless Black Order has been dispatched by the Grandmaster to destabilize a burgeoning empire -- but as big and as bad ...

  • Bedlam

    Skulduggery Pleasant - 12

    The 12th explosive novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, BEDLAM will blow your mind â€" and change everything…On a desperate journey to recover her sister's lost soul, Valkyrie Cain goes up against the High Sanctuary...

  • Armageddon Outta Here - The World of Skulduggery Pleasant

    The ULTIMATE story collection for Skulduggery Pleasant fans, now updated to include Apocalypse Kings AND six more new stories for this edition â€" 22 stories in all!ENTER A WORLD OF MAGIC AND MYSTERYEnter a world where Apocalypse Kings and ancient mo...

  • Seasons of War

    Skulduggery Pleasant - 13

    The thirteenth thrilling novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, SEASONS OF WAR will test the Skeleton Detective and Valkyrie like never before…War is coming.To avert catastrophe, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are sent on a...

  • Falcon & Winter Soldier: Cut Off One Head

    Collects Falcon & Winter Soldier (2020) #1-5. A tale of two Caps! An office of dead government agents. A gifted new killer. Two ex-Captain Americas. When a dramatic attempt on the life of Bucky Barnes reunites him with Sam Wilson, the old friends...

  • Apocalypse Kings

    A brand new Skulduggery Pleasant novella for World Book Day: a hilarious and thrilling standalone story in the internationally bestselling series â€" perfect for new readers, and essential for Skulduggery fans…Three ancient gods are freed from thei...

  • Falcon & Winter Soldier Vol. 1

    An office of dead government agents. A gifted new killer. Two ex-Captain Americas...When a dramatic attempt on the life of Bucky Barnes reunites him with Sam Wilson, the two old friends are plunged headlong into a race to uncover the new leader of Hy...

  • Dead or Alive

    Skulduggery Pleasant - 14

    Skulduggery, Valkyrie and Omen return in the 14th and penultimate novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series â€" and their most epic test yet…In a matter of days, the world will change.Billions of lives will be wiped away ...

  • The End of the World



  • The Skulduggery Pleasant Grimoire

    An unmissable paraquel to the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, The Skulduggery Pleasant Grimoire is at once a thrilling recap of the books so far, a reference guide to characters, and a treasure-trove of bonus conten...

  • Captain America/Iron Man: The Armor & The Shield

    Collects Captain America/Iron Man (2021) #1-5. Two of the greatest Avengers of all unite! A government agent turned Hydra provocateur stages a daring breakout on her way to prison, and the escape attracts the attention of both Captain America and Iro...

  • Until the End

    Skulduggery Pleasant - 15

    The second cycle of the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series comes to a thrilling end. You are not ready…The Faceless Ones have returned to our universe. The bad guys have won.With the end of everything just days away â€" and no ...

  • All-Out Avengers: Teachable Moments

    Collects ALL-OUT AVENGERS #1-5 and material from FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2022: SPIDER-MAN/VENOM.Strap in for an all-new, all-adrenaline adventure that starts in the middle and races to the finish! An alien attack - a city warped - and Captain Marvel look...

  • Hell Breaks Loose

    Discover the world of Skulduggery Pleasant in this prequel to the bestselling series. So many enemies, so little time . . . Italy, 1703.As the war with Mevolent rages on, the Dead Men are dispatched to a walled town in the Tuscan hills â€" not to ass...

  • Bad Magic

    Experience Skulduggery Pleasant as never before â€" in this fully original graphic novel brought vibrantly to life in full colour‘A real cracker. Fun, thrilling, smartly scripted and powerfully making a stand for diversity and inclusion in the face...

  • Avengers: Beyond

    Collects Avengers: Beyond (2023) #1-5. The Avengers' ALL-OUT adventure continues! Someone has been manipulating the Avengers for months, altering the very fabric of reality in an attempt to prepare the planet for a threat that could destroy everythin...

  • A Mind Full of Murder

    Skulduggery Pleasant - 16

    A bone-shaking new trilogy begins – the latest adventure in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant seriesSIX YEARS AGO, THE UNIVERSE ENDED.When it restarted, blinking back into existence, it brought with it a darkness that remains hidden from the...

  • Werewolf By Night: Unholy Alliance

    Creepy tales featuring everybody's favorite lycanthrope, Werewolf by Night, and more of Marvel's greatest heroes! In the black and white of night, Jack Russell races to halt the sacrifice of a young girl at the hands of monsters. Elsa Bloodstone, in ...

  • Skulduggery Pleasant - The Haunted House on Hollow Hill

    The book version of the thrilling and innovative narrative podcast.On a dark and stormy night …A pair of ghost-hunting journalists arrive at the most haunted house in Britain â€" the Hollow Hotel. They’re here to interview the Dark King of televi...



  • Skulduggery Pleasant Book #17

    Skulduggery Pleasant - 17

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Derek Landy has published 40 books.

The next book by Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant Book #17, will be published in July 2025.

The first book by Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant, was published in April 2007.

Yes. Derek Landy has 2 series.
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