Thud by Terry Pratchett

This is another of Pratchett's Diskworld series, about Vimes and justice again. Those who know what I'm talking about will understand; and those who don't should start with a different book in the series.

He's done better, and done worse. It hasn't as many of his characteristic offbeat asides, and he could have done without the pole-dancer character: she is only moderately amusing and the scenes don't fit well with the rest of the book. Perhaps he wanted to try to integrate Sally into the force quickly and needed a hen party to do it? The denoument has a couple of major plot-holes (dwarves paralyzed with fear at a berzerker's approach? And how did the ancients know any relics would survive?).

Still, he keeps the story flowing along pretty well, links the pieces of the mystery together nicely, and writes well.