Snuff (2011)
Snuff is a 2011 fiction book written by Terry Pratchett.
Lady Sybil has finally dragged her husband to the countryside for a proper holiday. Commander Sam Vimes, city-born copper to his boots, finds the fresh air, the balls, the birdsong, and the shortage of bacon sandwiches all faintly suspicious. Then a body turns up, out of his jurisdiction and squarely in his instincts. This late Discworld novel sends Ankh-Morpork's most stubborn policeman into a world of country estates, class privilege, and the treatment of goblins, folk everyone has agreed not to count as people. Pratchett mixes drawing-room manners with a hard moral edge and a genuine murder to solve.
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What is Snuff about?
Lady Sybil has finally dragged her husband to the countryside for a proper holiday. Commander Sam Vimes, city-born copper to his boots, finds the fresh air, the balls, the birdsong, and the shortage of bacon sandwiches all faintly suspicious. Then a body turns up, out of his jurisdiction and squarely in his instincts. This late Discworld novel sends Ankh-Morpork's most stubborn policeman into a world of country estates, class privilege, and the treatment of goblins, folk everyone has agreed not to count as people. Pratchett mixes drawing-room manners with a hard moral edge and a genuine murder to solve.
When was Snuff published?
Snuff was published in 2011.
Who made Snuff?
Snuff was written by Terry Pratchett.
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A few thoughts on Snuff
Hot Fuzz is the obvious next stop: a big-city officer exiled to a picture-postcard village where the quiet hides real crime, played for laughs and then for teeth. For the darker, procedural side of Vimes, Broadchurch works a small coastal community through one death and the guilt underneath everyone's respectability.
A city copper on holiday keeps finding country-house murder
Snuff drags Commander Vimes out of Ankh-Morpork into a rural holiday he does not trust, right before a body turns up on someone else's land. Broadchurch and Hot Fuzz both know that small-town England hides its worst behind good manners and better hedges. Night Watch and Raising Steam send the same stubborn Watch copper into other corners of the Disc, with the same nose for what nobody wants seen.