Death Bringer
core novel 2011 Skulduggery Pleasant
Record
| First published | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.47 (21,368 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780007326020 |
| Internal chronology | 6 |
Synopsis
Death Bringer, Derek Landy's sixth novel, opens with Valkyrie Cain attending her sister's christening before being drawn back into sorcerous conflict as dark forces, including the returning villain Lord Vile, gather around her. Melancholia St Clair, a disciple of necromancy with her own ambitions, emerges as a rival claimant to the role of the prophesied Death Bringer, a figure foretold to bring catastrophe, setting rival necromancer factions against one another. Valkyrie and Skulduggery Pleasant investigate the growing threat while Valkyrie contends with complications involving her boyfriend Fletcher Renn, the vampire Caelan, and her Reflection, a magical duplicate quietly living her ordinary life. As the necromancers' plans accelerate, Valkyrie and Skulduggery must determine who truly stands behind the emerging danger before the rival factions' designs can be carried out.
Where it sits
- Universe: Skulduggery Pleasant
- Series: The Skulduggery Pleasant main sequence core; position 6 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 6 of 18: previous Mortal Coil (2010) · next Kingdom of the Wicked (2012)
Sources
- FantasticFiction: Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skulduggery_Pleasant:_Death_Bringer
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