num_pages: 330
description: When a child goes missing in Edinburgh's darkest streets young Ropa investigates. She'll need to call on Zimbabwean magic as well as her Scottish pragmatism to hunt down clues. But as shadows lengthen will the hunter become the hunted?When ghosts talk she will listen...Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghostalker. Now she speaks to Edinburgh's dead carrying messages to the living. A girl's gotta earn a living and it seems harmless enough. Until that is the dead whisper that someone's bewitching children--leaving them husks empty of joy and life. It's on Ropa's patch so she feels honor-bound to investigate. But what she learns will change her world.She'll dice with death (not part of her life plan...) discovering an occult library and a taste for hidden magic. She'll also experience dark times. For Edinburgh hides a wealth of secrets and Ropa's gonna hunt them all down.
language: English
title: The Library of the Dead
publisher: Tor Books