title: A Commonplace Killing: A Novel
author:  Sin Busby 
description: In the midst of a crime wave in London in 1946, a woman found strangled in a bombsite is called a commonplace killing. But Divisional Detective Inspector Jim Cooper is bothered by it. The victim does not seem to be a tart, her state of dress aside, and this does not seem a standard sex crime. Separate narrations in an intricately constructed chronology follow the police investigation, the victim, and the perpetrator, and each plotline is permeated with the atmosphere of deprivation and depression of postwar London, with rationing and black marketing, homes barely habitable because of bombing, returning veterans scarred by their experiences and scrambling to find work, women missing the former atmosphere of sexual abandon, and everyone trying to adjust to life as it has become. In fiction based on fact, Busby not only captures time and place but makes them key players in this fast-moving crime novel with its characters indelibly marked by war. Busby died in September 2012 at 51, just after finishing this novel. Her death is a loss to the world of writing. --Michele Leber
zlib_text: About the Book
  It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time
  to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.
  And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and
  innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and
  an ancient crime more terrible than murder.
  He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, and occasionally snookered
  and out of his mind, but never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must
  be a chase and there must be a punishment.
  They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.
  But not quite all …
  
  Contents
  Cover
  About the Book
  Title Page
  Dedication
  Snuff
  Footnotes
  Epilogue
  About the Author
  Also by Terry Pratchett
  Copyright
  
  For Rob … for in between his days off.
  For Emma … for helping me understand goblins.
  And for Lyn … for always.
  
  THE GOBLIN EXPERIENCE of the world is th