THE SHEPHERD'S CROWN Discworld, Book 41

With the warmth, humor, and assurance of an old friend, Stephen Briggs, who worked with the late author for more than 25 years, delivers this fifth Tiffany Aching Adventure with all his heart. Sir Terry Pratchett is known for gleefully having taken up the big questions--time, tides, mollusks, et al.--in his bestselling comic-fantasy Discworld novels. And so it goes with one of Pratchett's most beloved and fully realized characters, the young witch Tiffany Aching. She must make her tiny corner of the world safe from marauding fairies, presumptuous barons, and flying toenail clippings. This is a special book--Pratchett's last. One can hear Briggs summoning up the voices of the Pictsies, Hags, and Wizards one more time as he heads for a worthy conclusion to a saga that only Pratchett could conjure. B.P. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2015]