Terrier

Its place in Beka Cooper

Terrier is book 1 in the Beka Cooper series. It is followed by Bloodhound. 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…