TERRIER (Tamora Pierce)

When sixteen-year-old Beka becomes "Puppy" to a pair of "Dogs," as the Provost’s Guards are called, she uses her police training, natural abilities, and a touch of magic to help them solve the case of a murdered baby in Tortall’s Lower City.

Beka Cooper is a rookie with the law-enforcing Provost's Guard, and she's been assigned to the Lower City. It's a tough beat that's about to get tougher, as Beka's limited ability to communicate with the dead clues her in to an underworld conspiracy. Someone close to Beka is using dark magic to profit from the Lower City's criminal enterprises--and the result is a crime wave the likes of which the Provost's Guard has never seen before.

CONTENTS Prologue 1 1. Trainers  2. The Grieving Mother  3. Fishpuppy Faces the World  4. The Rogue's Court  5. Good Puppy 6. Street Meetings  7. Fire Opals 8. The Barrel's Bottom  9. Before the Magistrate  10. Provost's House  11. Old Women  12. A Plan  13. Dry Season  14. Numbness  15. Warnings 16. Talks with Common Folk  17. Watch Dogs  18. Houseguests 19. Dawn  20. Cesspool Cellars  21. Riot Duty