Snuff

<p><strong>A lively outing complete with sly shout-outs to Jane Austen and gritty police procedurals.</strong>--<strong><em>Publishers Weekly</em> (starred review)</strong></p><p><strong>In Terry Pratchett's delightful <em>New York Times</em> bestselling tale of crime class prejudice and punishment Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on vacation. But this is Discworld where nothing goes as planned--and hilarious adventure ensues.</strong></p><p><em>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.</em></p><p>At long last Lady Sybil has lured her husband Sam Vimes on a well-deserved and long-overdue holiday. But for the commander of the City Watch a vacation in the country is anything but relaxing. The balls the teas the muck--not to mention all that fresh air and birdsong--are more than a bit taxing on a cynical city-born and -bred copper.</p><p>The policeman is back on familiar ground when a body is found--the first of many many corpses--and an ancient crime more terrible than murder is uncovered. Out of his jurisdiction out of his element and out of bacon sandwiches (thanks to his well-meaning wife)--Sam must rely on his copper's instincts guile and Ankh-Morpork street smarts to see justice done.</p><p>As he sets off on the chase though he must remember to watch where he steps. . . . This is the countryside after all and the streets most definitely are not paved with gold.</p><p>The Discworld novels can be read in any order but <em>Snuff</em> is the 8th book in the City Watch collection and the 39th Discworld book.</p><p>The City Watch series in order: </p><ul><em>Guards! Guards!</em></li><em>Men at Arms</em></li><em>Feet of Clay</em></li><em>Jingo</em></li><em>The Fifth Elephant</em></li><em>Night Watch</em></li><em>Thud!</em></li><em>Snuff</em></li></ul>