Skulduggery Pleasant · Book 2
Playing with Fire
- Published
- 1 April 2008
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9780061240881
- Type
- novel

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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061240898
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061240881