Terrier /
Tamora Pierce.
- 1st trade pbk. ed.
- New York : Random House, 2007.
- 582 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
- Beka Cooper ; bk. 1 .
- Pierce, Tamora. Beka Cooper ; bk. 1. .
"A Tortall legend"--Jacket. Maps on endpapers.
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.