A Mind Full of Murder
core novel 2024 Skulduggery Pleasant
Record
| First published | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.32 (1,952 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| Page count | 379 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780008585822 |
| Internal chronology | 16 |
Synopsis
A Mind Full of Murder opens a new trilogy within the series, set six years after the world ended and was restored, now carrying a hidden darkness beneath its surface. A masked sorcerer begins killing mortal victims one at a time, leaving behind puzzles at each scene, and Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain take on the case to determine who the killer is before more people die. As the pair work through the clues left for them, they find themselves drawn into the currents of the changed world left behind by the previous cycle's events, forcing them to adapt to a magical society that has been quietly reshaped. The sixteenth book follows their investigation as the puzzle-setting killer's pattern slowly comes into focus.
Where it sits
- Universe: Skulduggery Pleasant
- Series: The Skulduggery Pleasant main sequence core; position 16 of 18 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Derek Landy
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.
- Reading order, within the series The Skulduggery Pleasant main sequence: position 16 of 18: previous Until the End (2022) · next A Heart Full of Hatred (2025)
Sources
- FantasticFiction: Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
- https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/skulduggery-pleasant-16-a-mind-full-of-murder-derek-landy
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