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Landy knows his readers – who range from about 10 years of age into adulthood – and they know him. Can a grim destiny be changed if you fight hard enough? It’s a powerful theme.
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But can she change her future? That’s the plot driver in Mortal Coil. Mortal Coiltakes up seamlessly from the fourth book, Dark Days, where the cliff-hanger plot ended with Skulduggery’s sidekick, teenage sleuth Valkyrie Cain, discovering she is in fact Darquesse, a powerful sorcerer who, according to visions, will destroy the world. Not in a wishy-washy spells way: Landy’s characters live in a Dublin where evil Remnants inhabit the bodies of ordinary-looking people and the oddest-named characters (Landy’s names are brilliant) have powers ranging from those of an old woman who can speak every mortal language in the world to those of the sorcerer librarian China Sorrows, whose invisible tattoos come alive at the touch. The latest instalment in the Skulduggery series is everything Landy’s fans have come to expect: tense, funny and – this is the crucial thing about the writer – magical. There’s a giant of a man with a metal mask who, we soon learn, is Tesseract, a fantastic creation and an assassin sent to kill Davina Marr, the detective who made it her mission to pin something on the famously elusive Skulduggery. His trademark wide-brimmed hat gives him his suave, cool look – quite an achievement for a man going through life with a skeleton’s head – but muscly human hands are reaching to grab him, to bring him down. CHILDREN'S FICTION: Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil By Derek Landy Harper Collins, 572pp, £12.99IN THE COVER illustration of this thrilling and magical new novel – the fifth in the series – Derek Landy’s ace detective Skulduggery Pleasant looks like a man under pressure.