The Library of the Dead

core novel 2021 Edinburgh Nights

Record

First published	2021
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	3.48 (21,674 ratings, collected 2026-08-20)
Page count	330
First-edition ISBN	9781529039474
Internal chronology	1

Synopsis

The Library of the Dead, published by T.L. Huchu in 2021, opens the Edinburgh Nights series in a dystopian, alternate version of Edinburgh where the veil between the living and the dead has worn dangerously thin. Fourteen-year-old Ropa is a ghost talker, someone able to perceive and communicate with spirits, who performs informal exorcisms and message deliveries for paying clients to help support her struggling family. When a ghost approaches Ropa asking for help finding her missing son, Ropa's investigation into the boy's disappearance leads her toward the mysterious, semi-legendary Library of the Dead and uncovers signs of a wider conspiracy involving other missing children across the city, forcing Ropa to take on a case far larger and more dangerous than her usual small jobs.

Where it sits

• Universe: Edinburgh Nights
• Series: Edinburgh Nights core; position 1 of 5 in the series' recorded order
• Author: T.L. Huchu

Notes

• From the series record (Edinburgh Nights): Five-book sequence in settled internal chronology; publisher material describes Secrets of the First School as the series finale.

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 Edinburgh Nights: position 1 of 5: next Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (2022)

Sources

• Publisher listing: Secrets of the First School
• Series-order listing: Edinburgh Nights
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_the_Dead

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