Skulduggery Pleasant · Book 3

The Faceless Ones

Published
6 April 2009
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9780007302161
Type
novel
Cover of The Faceless Ones

About this book

The Faceless Ones (April 2009), the third Phase I novel, keeps up the series' detective-noir plotting and rapid-fire banter as Valkyrie Cain and Skulduggery investigate deeper into hidden magical Ireland. It runs 384 pages.

Key facts about The Faceless Ones

Derek Landy wrote The Faceless Ones, a novel on our list. It has been out since 6 April 2009. The book has 384 pages.

We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007302161 to find the main one.

The Faceless Ones is book 3 of 25 in the Skulduggery Pleasant series. The series has 25 published books. However, the series starts with Skulduggery Pleasant (2007). A Soul Full of Shadows is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 26 March 2026.

Additionally, Derek Landy writes Demon Road as a separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy and horror shelves. Meanwhile, A Soul Full of Shadows is the latest published Derek Landy book on file, from 26 March 2026.

About Derek Landy

Derek Landy is an Irish author and screenwriter, born in 1974 in Lusk, County Dublin, who worked on his family's vegetable farm and studied animation before breaking into film: he wrote the IFTA-winning Dead Bodies and the IFTA-nominated Boy Eats Girl, starring Samantha Mumba. See every Derek Landy book in order.

Its place in Skulduggery Pleasant

The Faceless Ones is book 3 in the Skulduggery Pleasant series. It follows Playing with Fire. It is followed by Dark Days. 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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