Tamora Pierce only gets better as an author with each book, and this one, her latest, is no exception. I really like Beka, and the world she inhabits, and this book stands out for me as being based on a mystery about forgery, and by showing the nation-shattering damage (inflation, starvation) it can produce. I also find it refreshing that Beka and the world she inhabits isn't the usual bucolic rural village or amidst nobility or royalty. The books is more gritty urban police procedural, even if in a pseudo-medieval setting.
