<p><b>''THE JURISDICTION OF A GOOD MAN EXTENDS TO THE END OF THE WORLD.''</b><br><br>Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is having some time off. Apparently.<br><br>But crime doesn''t take a break - it''s a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman on holiday would barely have time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.<br><br>In the seemingly peaceful countryside, Vimes discovers much more than a body in the wardrobe. For the local nobles are hiding a deep, dark secret. There are many, many bodies - and an ancient atrocity more terrible than murder.<br><br>Vimes is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth and out of his mind. But never out of ideas. Where there is a crime there must be a punishment.<br><br>They say that in the end all sins are forgiven. This might be the exception ...<br><br><b>''As effortlessly, generously funny as only Pratchett can be, <i>Snuff </i>doesn''t stint on laying bare the darker side of life either'' <i>Sunday Times<b