Locus Award nominee 2012.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday will barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.
And 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. Rather, 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, occasionally snookered and out of his mind. But never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase, and there must be a punishment.
They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.
But not quite all…
The series
The Discworld series is a continuous history of a world not totally unlike our own, except that it is a flat disc carried on the backs of four elephants astride a giant turtle floating through space, and that it is peopled by, among others, wizards, dwarves, soldiers, thieves, beggars, vampires and witches. Within the history of Discworld, there are many individual stories which can be enjoyed in any order. But reading them in the sequence in which they were written can increase your enjoyment through the accumulation of all the fine detail that contributes to the teeming imaginative complexity of this brilliantly conceived world.
#1 · 1983The Colour of Magic 
#2 · 1986The Light Fantastic 
#3 · 1987Equal Rites 
#4 · 1987Mort 
#5 · 1988Sourcery 
#6 · 1988Wyrd Sisters 
#7 · 1989Pyramids 
#8 · 1989Guards! Guards! 
#9 · 1990Eric 
#10 · 1990Moving Pictures 
#11 · 1991Reaper Man 
#12 · 1991Witches Abroad 
#13 · 1992Small Gods 
#14 · 1992Lords and Ladies 
#15 · 1993Men at Arms 
#16 · 1994Soul Music 
#17 · 1994Interesting Times 
#18 · 1995Maskerade 
#19 · 1996Feet of Clay 
#20 · 1996Hogfather 
#21 · 1997Jingo 
#22 · 1998The Last Continent 
#23 · 1998Carpe Jugulum 
#24 · 1999The Fifth Elephant 
#25 · 2000The Truth 
#26 · 2001Thief of Time 
#27 · 2002Night Watch 
#28 · 2003Monstrous Regiment 
#29 · 2004Going Postal 
#30 · 2005Thud! 
#31 · 2007Making Money 
#32 · 2009Unseen Academicals 
#33 · 2011Snuff 
#34 · 2013Raising Steam 
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