Book reviews
LATELY, there has been a risk that Sir Terry Pratchett’s knighthood, and his new-found role as a campaigner on euthanasia and Alzheimer’s, might eclipse his initial claim to fame — the majestically detailed fantasy realm of Discworld.
The latest Discworld book sends tough, honest cop Sam Vimes on a reluctant holiday to his wife’s country estate, where, as inevitably happens when a city policeman holidays in the country, he stumbles upon a murder.