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Derek Landy
Author · 50 books

Derek Landy is an Irish writer and screenwriter. In addition to the bestselling children's/YA series of Skulduggery Pleasant books, a supernatural mystery series starring Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton detective, and Valkyrie Cain, a young female magician, he has written two screenplays that have been made into films: the IFTA award winning "Dead Bodies" and the IFTA nominated "Boy Eats Girl". Landy himself was nominated for an IFTA for Best Script. He doesn’t like to brag about all the awards he’s won, such as the Irish Book of the Decade, or the Red House in the UK, or all the other awards that he humbly displays on his mantelpiece. He is also far too modest to mention things like the first book being a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year, but would like to extend an invitation to Oprah to pop around one day for tea, in thanks for selecting his book for the Oprah’s Book Club Kids Reading List. Derek plays too many video games, reads too many comics, and watches too many movies. He lives in Ireland with too many cats. Occasionally he talks to real people, but only when he absolutely has to.

Series

Books

Seasons of War book cover

Seasons of War

2020

Once Upon a Place book cover

Once Upon a Place

2015

Demon Road book cover

Demon Road

2015

Falcon & Winter Soldier (2020) #3 book cover

Falcon & Winter Soldier (2020) #3

2020

Skulduggery Pleasant #1-5 book cover

Skulduggery Pleasant #1-5

2011

Desolation book cover

Desolation

2016

Bedlam book cover

Bedlam

2019

The End of the World book cover

The End of the World

2012

The Wonderful Adventures of Geoffrey Scrutinous

2011

Mortal Coil book cover

Mortal Coil

2010

American Monsters book cover

American Monsters

2016

The Haunted House on Hollow Hill book cover

The Haunted House on Hollow Hill

2024

Death Bringer book cover

Death Bringer

2011

Gold, Babies and the Brothers Muldoon book cover

Gold, Babies and the Brothers Muldoon

2011

Skulduggery Pleasant (18) – A Soul Full of Shadows

The latest epic adventure in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series

2026

The Faceless Ones book cover

The Faceless Ones

2008

Falcon & Winter Soldier (2020) #4 book cover

Falcon & Winter Soldier (2020) #4

2020

Bad Magic book cover

Bad Magic

A Skulduggery Pleasant Graphic Novel

2023

Going Once, Going Twice book cover

Going Once, Going Twice

2018

The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage book cover

The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage

2013

Skulduggery Pleasant #1-4 book cover

Skulduggery Pleasant #1-4

Skulduggery Pleasant, Playing with Fire, The Faceless Ones, Dark Days

2011

The Slightly Ignominious End to the Legend of Black Annis

2011

Resurrection book cover

Resurrection

2017

The Button

2012

Skulduggery Pleasant Grimoire book cover

Skulduggery Pleasant Grimoire

2021

The Hero of Drumree book cover

The Hero of Drumree

Beyond the Stars

2014

A Mind Full of Murder book cover

A Mind Full of Murder

2024

Midnight book cover

Midnight

2018

Skulduggery Pleasant book cover

Skulduggery Pleasant

2007

Kingdom of the Wicked book cover

Kingdom of the Wicked

2012

Falcon & Winter Soldier (2020) #1 book cover

Falcon & Winter Soldier (2020) #1

2020

Armageddon Outta Here book cover

Armageddon Outta Here

2014

Doctor Who book cover

Doctor Who

11 Doktor 11 Öykü

2013

Marvel-Verse book cover

Marvel-Verse

Falcon & Winter Soldier

2020

The Lost Art of World Domination book cover

The Lost Art of World Domination

2011

Dark Days book cover

Dark Days

2010

Falcon & Winter Soldier (2020) #2 book cover

Falcon & Winter Soldier (2020) #2

2020

Playing with Fire book cover

Playing with Fire

2008

Trick or Treat

2011

Hell Breaks Loose book cover

Hell Breaks Loose

2023

Until the End book cover

Until the End

2022

Apocalypse Kings book cover

Apocalypse Kings

2021

A Heart Full of Hatred book cover

A Heart Full of Hatred

2025

Falcon & Winter Soldier (2020) #5 book cover

Falcon & Winter Soldier (2020) #5

2020

The Dying of the Light book cover

The Dying of the Light

2014

Falcon & Winter Soldier book cover

Falcon & Winter Soldier

Cut Off One Head

2021

Werewolf By Night (2023) #1 book cover

Werewolf By Night (2023) #1

2023

Last Stand of Dead Men book cover

Last Stand of Dead Men

2013

Dead or Alive book cover

Dead or Alive

2021

The Maleficent Seven book cover

The Maleficent Seven

2013

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