Skulduggery Pleasant · Book 5
Mortal Coil
- Published
- 2 September 2010
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN-13
- 9780007241620
- Type
- novel
About this book
Mortal Coil, published September 2010 at 448 pages, is the fifth Phase I novel -- part of the run where Derek Landy's tonal swings between rapid-fire banter and real darkness start to sharpen.
Its place in Skulduggery Pleasant
Mortal Coil is book 5 in the Skulduggery Pleasant series. It follows Dark Days. It is followed by Death Bringer. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007434916
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007241620