Snuff
(Discworld Novel 39)
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4.5 • 469 Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
'THE JURISDICTION OF A GOOD MAN EXTENDS TO THE END OF THE WORLD.'
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is having some time off. Apparently.
But crime doesn't take a break - it's a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman on holiday would barely have time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.
In the seemingly peaceful countryside, Vimes discovers much more than a body in the wardrobe. For the local nobles are hiding a deep, dark secret. There are many, many bodies - and an ancient atrocity more terrible than murder.
Vimes is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth and out of his mind. But never out of ideas. Where there is a crime there must be a punishment.
They say that in the end all sins are forgiven. This might be the exception ...
'As effortlessly, generously funny as only Pratchett can be, Snuff doesn't stint on laying bare the darker side of life either' Sunday Times
Snuff is the eighth book in the City Watch series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Pratchett's 39th Discworld novel (after 2010's I Shall Wear Midnight) brings back fan favorite Sam Vimes, the cynical yet extraordinarily honorable Ankh-Morpork City Watch commander also known (if unenthusiastically) as His Grace Sir Samuel, the Duke of Ankh. Vimes faces an onerous task: two weeks off in the country at his wife's family estate. It's not the thought of spending time with his beloved Sybil or precocious six-year-old Young Sam that bothers him; it's just that a copper can't stop being a copper. Fortunately, even in this conservative hamlet, there's plenty of skullduggery to investigate, beginning with the brutal murder of a goblin girl. With the help of untried local constable Feeney Upshot and gentleman's gentleman Willikens, Vimes takes on a fiendish murderer as well as the case for (in)human rights and social justice in this lively outing, complete with sly shout-outs to Jane Austen and gritty police procedurals.
Customer Reviews
It's hard being this good!
His Grace Sir Samuel Vimes is back! Young Sam is now 6 & Sybil is still formidable. The humour, humanity, goblinity (!) & sheer warmth of this book is unmistakably Pratchett. A book you can go completely librarian about. Excellent.
The best
The best book I've ever read. Hat off to you. Funny mesmerising and witty. A+++
Terrific
An outstanding work and a reassuring return to form after - in my opinion - a couple of wobbly recent outings from Sir Terry. Thought-provoking, smart, exciting, ambitious and laugh-out-loud funny, for me Snuff sits alongside Guards! Guards!, Men At Arms and Thud! as one of the best in the series, starring the Discworld's most indelible and irascible character. Loved it.