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A Heart Full of Hatred

core novel 2025 Skulduggery Pleasant

Record

First published2025
Original language EN
Work typenovel
Canon statuscore
Reader rating4.19 (1,173 ratings, collected 2026-08-26)
First-edition ISBN9780008585907
Internal chronology17

Synopsis

A Heart Full of Hatred, the seventeenth book and middle volume of its trilogy, follows a killer stalking and murdering sorcerers one by one, with Valkyrie Cain identified as next on the list. Valkyrie and Skulduggery Pleasant are simultaneously hunting a cult of magical terrorists operating in the background, and the two threads intertwine when the pair are drawn into a murder investigation that echoes, in unsettling ways, the case that nearly killed Valkyrie's sister and girlfriend. As the body count from the stalking killer rises, Valkyrie must balance the personal danger to herself with the wider threat posed by the terrorist cult, while Skulduggery works to connect the two cases before the killer reaches her.

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Notes

  • From the series record (The Skulduggery Pleasant main sequence): The main numbered sequence concluded with A Soul Full of Shadows (2026); several companion novellas and short-story collections in the same setting exist but are not catalogued in this admission.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.

Sources

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