Koom Valley? That was where in fact the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It had been a long time ago.

But if he doesn’t solve the murder of just one single dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork Town Watch is going to view it fought again, right outside his workplace.

With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is usually following him.

Oh . with six o’clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to learn ‘Where’s My Cow?’, with all the current right farmyard sounds, to his little boy.

There are some things you should do.