Snuff
core novel 2011 Discworld
Record
| First published | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.20 (64,873 ratings, collected 2026-09-11) |
| Page count | 378 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780062218865 |
Synopsis
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is reluctantly persuaded by Lord Vetinari to take his family on a country holiday to his wife Sybil's ancestral estate, certain that a policeman on vacation will find nothing to investigate. He is quickly proven wrong: local prejudice against goblins runs deep in the countryside, a children's author named Miss Felicity Beedle seems to know more than she says, and Vimes soon finds the severed finger of a goblin girl and signs of a brutal attack near the estate. When the local blacksmith Jethro Jefferson vanishes after a public argument with Vimes, Vimes himself becomes a suspect, and he joins forces with the sole local constable, young Feeney Upshot, to investigate a case that reaches from the estate's hidden corners into wider currents of goblin exploitation and organized crime.
Where it sits
- Universe: Discworld
- Series: City Watch core; position 8 of 8 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Terry Pratchett
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series City Watch: position 8 of 8: previous Thud! (2005)
Sources
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