Demon Road

Name: William Joseph
Price range: $

by Derek Landy

Interest age: 14+
Reading age: 11+

Published by HarperCollins, 2015

Adventure
Fantasy
Horror

About this book

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.

Dramatic changes at home mean she must run for her life across America. She's following the Dark Highway or Demon Roads meeting many strange, devilish and dangerous characters on the way.

Skulduggery Pleasant author Derek Landy has once again created a cast of supernatural characters who the reader will be immediately drawn to and intrigued by. This is a fast paced story which leaps from dangerously from location to location and packs plenty of punches.

About the author

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.