Terrier

The Shadow Snake is killing young children for their parents treasures, diggers are killed to keep what they're digging a secret and the 16-year old "Puppy" Rebekah Cooper is in the middle of it all.

Beka Cooper has joined the Provost's Guard, Tortall's Peacekeepers, to keep the peace within the Lower City. With the ability to hear the voices of the dead on the backs of Pigeon's Beka searches with the help of her two senior Dogs, Goodwin and Tunstall, and her friends to find the murderers and bring them to justice.

The first of Tamora Pierce's Beka Cooper Trilogy is written in First Person Diary format that will keep you guessing until the very end. Continue on Beka's adventures in Bloodhound and Mastiff, books two and three of Rebekah Cooper's story of what it's like to be a Dog in the Provost's Guard.