By Tamora Pierce
Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Random House, 2011
Genres: Fantasy, mystery, paranormal
Series: Beka Cooper; 3
ISBN: 9780375814709
Audience: Young adult
Number of pages: 593
Setting: Kingdom of Tortall
Time period: 249 H.E. (medieval)
Plot summary: Beka Cooper and her partner, Mattias Tunstall, are summoned to a hunt by their Lord Gershom in the middle of the night. Beka and her scent hound, Achoo, along with Tunstall, Lord Gershom, Pounce, and a mage named Farmer Cape, travel to the Summer Palace where they discover a royal kidnapping has occurred and the kidnappers had inside help. It’s up to Beka and her colleagues to track down Prince Gareth, who has been sold into slavery, and return him safely to the king and queen. Continue reading “Mastiff”
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