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'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
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781473588172
- File size: 390663 KB
- Duration: 13:33:52
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Stephen Briggs has a long history with the Discworld series, having narrated Sam Vimes through many adventures. Here Vimes is on a forced vacation. No matter where he is, however, he's a "copper" who finds crimes to solve. Some familiarity with the series will be useful and, more importantly, will add to the fun. Briggs's sardonic delivery augments the dry humor and the wordplay that is one of Prachett's trademarks. Briggs's versatility is called upon as Vimes's vacation brings him to the country estate of his wife's family, where they hobnob with country society's elite and powerful. J.E.M. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine -
Starred review from August 15, 2011
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.
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