Skulduggery Pleasant · Book 2

Playing with Fire

by Derek Landy

Published
1 April 2008
Pages
352
ISBN-13
9780061240881
Type
novel

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Cover of Playing with Fire

About this book

Playing with Fire (April 2008) is the second novel in Phase I, continuing Stephanie Edgley's training from tag-along to genuine magical powerhouse alongside skeleton detective Skulduggery Pleasant. It runs 352 pages.

Its place in Skulduggery Pleasant

Playing with Fire is book 2 in the Skulduggery Pleasant series. It follows Skulduggery Pleasant. It is followed by The Faceless Ones. 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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