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Mortal Coil
Derek Landy
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 – for one thing, foreign powers are conspiring to take over the Irish Sanctuary, and for another thing, Valkyrie has discovered she might be the sorceress set to destroy the world. The problem is, she doesn’t feel she can tell Skulduggery what she’s learned… and that’s how all the trouble starts.With Valkyrie on a quest of her own, to seal her name and prevent her evil destiny from coming to pass, Skulduggery and the gang are even more vulnerable. Which is a shame, because remember those thousands of remnants, imprisoned in the Midnight Hotel? Well, now they’re out. Not only that but they believe Valkyrie is their messiah. And that means thousands of wicked souls, desperate to get to Valkyrie, willing to kill anyone in their way… Oh, and because they can possess any body, they could be ANYONE.Now Skulduggery, Valkyrie, Ghastly and Tanith can trust no one. Not even each other…
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First published in this edition in the United States of America by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2018
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This book is dedicated, with great reluctance, to myeditor, Nick Lake, because he is forcing me to.
Personally, I would have liked to include Gillie Russelland Michael Stearns who, along with Nick, reallywelcomed me into the publishing world with myfirst book.
Unfortunately, because Nick is now my sole editor, he hasthreatened to edit this dedication down to anunrecognisable mess of blacked-out lines, and so as aresult this dedication is to him, and him alone.
Personally I think that this shows a staggering amount of
and
, which proves that Nick is nothing but a
with
for
, but hey, that’s justmy personal opinion.
Here, Nick. You finally get a book dedicated to you.
Hope you’re
happy.
.
(Editor’s Note: Nick Lake is a great guy.)
Contents
Cover (#u55d4160f-525a-586d-ac34-74465082737e)
Title Page (#u94d38a63-0c5c-5e44-b1ce-459c923fb332)
Copyright (#uac94c341-3b7d-54aa-bac5-e0d13b2c060a)
Dedication (#ua62cf191-df65-57a8-a4ba-a4cfa68e47f0)
Chapter 1. Wreath’s Task (#ud608b38d-fae1-556b-ace7-f6fecd40325c)
Chapter 2. The Smiling Detective (#u5def92a2-e7fa-59c9-b4f1-34fcb62aedbb)
Chapter 3. Tesseract (#u5b2681d7-eb4e-5bf9-afe4-8a76d5fe60bc)
Chapter 4. Grander Scales (#ue44132fa-0eb6-50fb-93bd-809f3cc01924)
Chapter 5. Valkyrie’s Dilemma (#u097aa44a-e8a5-5d87-b07c-c06f56ba1839)
Chapter 6. The New Messiah (#u17016a06-bb6e-592e-bb7a-034362952078)
Chapter 7. Blood (#ud5b06ba7-6ce6-5aa6-9803-6ee1f42d1c96)
Chapter 8. The Zombie King (#u2644dae6-4852-55dc-9eca-09cf0bb4d482)
Chapter 9. The New Grand Mage (#udb067cf9-6955-5401-9f79-06fa69f53d9f)
Chapter 10. The Bonebreaker (#uf9d2963b-193c-5c9f-862d-d8d63af96033)
Chapter 11. The Roarhaven Mages (#u97304bb2-8979-50d9-acb4-3e14c307c5a7)
Chapter 12. Keeping a Straight Face (#ud7c639af-2f6a-5866-83e1-49de517debc8)
Chapter 13. Suffering (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 14. Dead Men (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 15. The Banshee (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 16. The Interrogation of Davina Marr (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 17. The Job (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 18. Licking Wounds (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 19. Christmas Morning at the Midnight Hotel (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 20. ’Tis the Season (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 21. Nye (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 22. Soul Searching (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 23. The Grave (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 24. The Dead Girl (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 25. Dirt (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 26. The Truth (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 27. Back With Finbar (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 28. The Z-Word (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 29. Her Guardian Angel (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 30. Meet the Parents (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 31. The First Wave (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 32. Shenanigans (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 33. The Twins (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 34. Remnants Unleashed (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 35. Scrutinous (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 36. Quiet, Please (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 37. Enemy Hands (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 38. Fighting (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 39. Muriel (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 40. The Plan (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 41. The Head in the Box (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 42. The Lesson Begins (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 43. By the Sword (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 44. Siege at the Hibernian (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 45. Frightening (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 46. According to Plan (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 47. Strange Bedfellows (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 48. Plan Falls Apart (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 49. Following the Key (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 50. Macgillycuddy’s Reeks (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 51. The Receptacle (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 52. New Year’s Eve (#litres_trial_promo)
