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Derek Landy Photo: HarperCollins

Derek Landy

Before writing his children's story about a sharply-dressed skeleton detective, Derek Landy wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a murderous thriller in which everybody dies.

As a black belt in Kenpo Karate he has taught countless children how to defend themselves, in the hopes of building his own private munchkin army. He firmly believes that they await his call to strike against his enemies (he doesn't actually have any enemies, but he's assuming they'll show up, sooner or later).

Derek lives on the outskirts of Dublin, and the reason he writes his own biography blurb is so that he can finally refer to himself in the third person without looking pompous or insane.

Books

  • Demon Road

    Demon Road

    Author: Derek Landy
    Publisher: HarperCollins
    Interest age: 14+
    Reading age: 11+

    Amber is about to turn 16. She has never felt particularly close to her parents and she's always thought they were a little odd but she is about to find out how strange they really are, and how unusual she is.

  • Skulduggery Pleasant

    Skulduggery Pleasant

    Author: Derek Landy
    Publisher: HarperCollins
    Interest age: 11+
    Reading age: 11+

    Meet Skulduggery Pleasant, skeleton detective, fighting to save the world from wizard-gone-to-the-dark-side, Nefarian Serpine.

  • Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer

    Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer

    Author: Derek Landy
    Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
    Interest age: 11+
    Reading age: 11+

    Derek Landy’s series about Skulduggery Pleasant, skeleton detective, reaches its sixth entertaining installment

  • Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire

    Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire

    Author: Derek Landy
    Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
    Interest age: 9+
    Reading age: 10+

    Skeletons, vampires, black magic, ancient gods, secret powers and a gruesome monster... Skulduggery Pleasant is back. 

  • Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless Ones

    Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless Ones

    Author: Derek Landy
    Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
    Interest age: 11-16
    Reading age: 10+

    Skulduggery Pleasant, the skeleton detective, and his sidekick, fourteen-year-old Valkyrie Cain, known to her Irish friends as Steph, are unofficially on the case.

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