Skulduggery Pleasant · Book 25

A Soul Full of Shadows

by Derek Landy

Published
26 March 2026
Pages
417
ISBN-13
9780008585983
Type
novel

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Cover of A Soul Full of Shadows

About this book

A Soul Full of Shadows, the eighteenth novel and closing entry of the three-book Phase III run, was published in March 2026 -- the most recent installment in a saga that has run since 2007. It runs 417 pages.

Its place in Skulduggery Pleasant

A Soul Full of Shadows is book 25 in the Skulduggery Pleasant series. It follows A Small Matter of Impending Catastrophe. See the full Skulduggery Pleasant reading order.

Twelve-year-old Stephanie Edgley inherits a strange house from her recently deceased uncle and finds herself teamed up with its previous tenant's oldest friend: a wisecracking, magic-wielding, reanimated skeleton detective named Skulduggery Pleasant. Together they investigate a hidden magical Ireland full of sorcerers, monsters, and ancient evils, and Stephanie - who takes the name Valkyrie Cain - trains up from tag-along to genuine magical powerhouse across a saga that keeps escalating in scale and body count as…

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