Skulduggery Pleasant · Book 16
Dead or Alive
- Published
- 1 April 2021
- Pages
- 608
- ISBN-13
- 9780008470272
- Type
- novel
About this book
Dead or Alive (April 2021), 608 pages, continues Phase II, positioned after Seasons of War and ahead of the companion volume The Skulduggery Pleasant Grimoire, as the six-book second run heads toward its 2022 close.
Its place in Skulduggery Pleasant
Dead or Alive is book 16 in the Skulduggery Pleasant series. It follows Seasons of War. It is followed by The Skulduggery Pleasant Grimoire. 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 9780008386320
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780008470272