Skulduggery Pleasant 05. Mortal Coil

The fifth instalment in the thrilling, hilarious and bestselling series. Crime fighting skeleton extraordinaire, Skulduggery Pleasant, and his assistant Valkyrie Cain, return just in time to see their whole world turned upside-down. While they struggle to protect a known killer from an unstoppable assassin, Valkyrie is on a secret mission of her own: a quest to prevent her dark and murderous destiny. Meanwhile, the body-snatching Remnants. twisted souls who possess the living like puppets, get loose. Facing such insurmountable odds, Skulduggery and Valkyrie can trust no one, not even each other...