Resurrection

Resurrection
Derek Landy

The best-selling return of skeleton detective Skulduggery Pleasant and it will rearrange your world.A lot has changed. Roarhaven is now a magical city, where sorcerers can live openly. Valkyrie Cain has been out of action for years, recovering from the war against her alter-ego Darquesse, which nearly destroyed her and everyone else.Some things never change though: bad people still want to do bad things, and Skulduggery Pleasant is still there to stop them.When Skulduggery learns of a plot to resurrect a terrifying evil, he persuades Valkyrie to join him for just 24 hours. But they need someone else on their team, someone inconspicuous, someone who can go undercover.Enter Omen Darkly. Student at the new Corrival Academy. Overlooked. Unremarkable in every way.24 hours to save the world. One sharply-dressed skeleton. One grief-stricken young woman. One teenage boy who can’t remember which class he’s supposed to be in.This cannot end well…

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Source ISBN: 9780008169022

Ebook Edition © ISBN: 9780008219581

Version: 2017-07-14

This book is dedicated to Yve.

Yve, our friendship is like a fine wine: it improves with age, is fragrant and ebullient, and it has aromas of mulberries and pencil lead and …

No. No, that’s not it.

Our friendship is less like wine and more like a journey. It has twists and turns and sometimes you lose the signal for the radio and find yourself driving around in circles thanks to the cheap sat nav you bought from that guy with the …

No, that’s not it either.

Our friendship is less like wine, and less like a journey, and more like a … a …

Listen, Yve, they’re going to print in the morning and I have to get this dedication done in the next few minutes but I really can’t think of anything that adequately describes our friendship so it’d be much easier if we just weren’t friends any more.

Really sorry.

In the nothing before the beginningthere was a thought. And the thoughtbecame the beginning.

Contents

Cover (#ua69c9f95-6a8f-54c4-b846-d984ad5e7ad0)

Title Page (#u31c999fc-d956-54ca-8712-4c03489d613a)

Copyright (#u059780cf-146a-5deb-a91d-ed1240ba778e)

Dedication (#udb318702-a2ff-5582-8fec-8820da8eb30e)

Epigraph (#u1218388d-0652-57dd-a4a2-625c9f511131)

Chapter 1 (#u162821c9-21cf-5ee6-9197-27895800a210)

Chapter 2 (#ub8cb62db-cba9-5fc7-a83d-56738da34c6d)

Chapter 3 (#u3a9f74b4-ffa6-59d2-af50-505869f20995)

Chapter 4 (#u759541dc-14d6-5d82-ada2-ae558f9bf8e4)

Chapter 5 (#u91546844-c6d5-5427-868b-932f2b438a1d)

Chapter 6 (#u3a57becc-22e9-5b36-90eb-7c89ba609155)

Chapter 7 (#u46117543-86cb-5349-9150-9738b1860a9a)