Terrier
by:
Tamora Pierce (author)
The start to a new Tortall trilogy introducing Beka Cooper—an amazing young woman who is the medieval equivalent of a police officer and has magical powers. 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...
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The start to a new Tortall trilogy introducing Beka Cooper—an amazing young woman who is the medieval equivalent of a police officer and has magical powers. 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.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780375843150 (0375843159)
Publish date: October 23rd 2007
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 592
Edition language: English
Series: Beka Cooper (#1)
Not my favorite series of hers.
Enjoyed the diary format and seeing the Tortall world a few hundred years before the other series.
One of my favourite novels of all time, and probably my favourite series of Tamora's, which is saying something.I love the world, the language, the slang, everything about this book. Beka is one of my favourite heroines of all time. I highly recommend this to everyone, not just fantasy lovers. Get y...
Terrier is the first book in Tamora Pierce's "Beka Cooper" trilogy. Telling the story of George Cooper's illustrious ancestor, Terrior is equal parts mystery and pure fun. Pierce has a talent of writing likeable characters that you can related to, no matter your age, and Beka Cooper is no exception ...
12/13 ** Ditto - didn't realize I'd already read this calendar year.5/13 ** Re-read this month because I wanted something familiar and comfortable.8/11/12 ** I can't believe this wasn't in my list of GoodReads books already! I know that I've read the series one other time, but that must have been w...