Skeleton detective Skulduggery Pleasant must team up with a war-traumatised young woman and a disorganised young man to save the now openly-magical city of Roarhaven from the resurrection of a terrifying evil.

Derek Landy lives near Dublin. Before writing his children's story about a sharply-dressed skeleton detective, he wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a murderous horror film. "I think my career-guidance teacher is spinning in her grave," he says, "or she would be if she were dead."