Beka Cooper · Book 2

Bloodhound

by Tamora Pierce

Published
1 January 2009
Pages
240
ISBN-13
9780375814693
Type
novel

Buy on AmazonAll Beka Cooper books in order

Cover of Bloodhound

About this book

The shortest of the three at 240 pages, Bloodhound (2009) continues Beka's rise through the Provost's Guard ranks three years after Terrier, working a new major investigation in Corus's crime-ridden Lower City alongside her uncanny cat, Pounce.

Its place in Beka Cooper

Bloodhound is book 2 in the Beka Cooper series. It follows Terrier. It is followed by Mastiff. See the full Beka Cooper reading order.

Beka Cooper is set two centuries before the rest of Pierce's Tortall novels, following a teenage recruit to the Provost's Guard -- the city watch nicknamed 'Dogs' -- in the crime-ridden Lower City of the capital, Corus. Beka is quietly gifted rather than dramatically powerful: she can hear fragments of the recent dead through the pigeons that scavenge crime scenes, and catch whispered secrets carried on the wind-spun dust spinners that gather in city streets, magic suited less to combat than to detective work…

Editions