Snuff
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Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
'The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.'
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies - and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.
He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches; and out of his mind. But never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a punishment.
They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.
Vimes is about to uncover the exception.
The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Snuff is the eighth book in the City Watch series.
'Snuff is entertaining, with all Pratchett's genius on display' Sunday Express
© Dunmanifestin Ltd 2011 (P) Penguin Audio 2023
Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
'The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.'
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies - and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.
He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches; and out of his mind. But never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a punishment.
They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.
Vimes is about to uncover the exception.
The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Snuff is the eighth book in the City Watch series.
'Snuff is entertaining, with all Pratchett's genius on display' Sunday Express
© Dunmanifestin Ltd 2011 (P) Penguin Audio 2023
Reviews
[Discworld is] Warm, silly, compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world... Where other writers are delighted if they come up with just a handful of comic figures with self-sustaining life in them - Don Quixote and Sancho, the three men in the boat, Pooh and Piglet and Eeyore - Pratchettt breeds them by the score...There's never been anything quite like it
Francis Spufford, Evening Standard
