The Library of the Dead by TL Huchu
Part of a new series called Ediburgh Nights, I just finished The Library of the Dead by T L Huchu (Audio book version from Harper Audio) - a refreshingly different YA-urban fantasy featuring a precocious sassy fourteen-year old up against malicious spirits, and evil ghosts. I enjoyed this one, a breezy fast ghost-story, mystery set in the titular city of Edinburgh, focused on 14-year old Ropa Moya. A gifted teenager who is a "ghostalker" and who uses this talent to actually make some money on the sides - by being that clairvoyant, a messenger between the living and their beloved dead ones. But one of these sessions, Ropa gets contacted by a persistent mother Nichola who claims her son has been missing for a few days now and wants Ropa's help to find him. Ropa unwittingly gets drawn into something far more sinister plot that involves children missing off the streets, and ones who survive and come back from whatever ordeal they are plunged into, are too far "gone...