The Soulreaper Chronicles - Thieftaker by James Monaghan

Thirty years ago, the fae were released. The world changed. Magic returned. And the Isles were covered by an enchanted forest…

Daniel Therwood was a child when the Change occured. Caught up in the events, he received a cursed gift - the ability to steal the souls of other men, both living and dead.

Now working as a thieftaker, solving murders for a price, he does his best with the hand fate has dealt him. When someone leaves a corpse in his bed, though, Daniel is forced on the run from a fellow thieftaker convinced he is the killer.

His quest to clear his name will take him from the ever shifting decks of the Dregs to the rose-scented courts of Arvingal, and into the middle of a mad magician’s deadly plans…