Thief of time is a fantasy novel by british writer terry pratchett the 26th book in his discworld series it was the last discworld novel with a cover by josh kirby contents. A thief of time 1h 34min mystery tv movie 11 july 2004 officers leaphorn and chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts from a burial site. The discworld novels can be read in any order but thief of time is the fifth book in the death series the monks of history have the glamorous job of time management in the discworld they store it and pump it from the places where its wasted like the underwater how much time does a codfish need to places like cities where theres never enough time. For the terry pratchett novel see thief of time a thief of time is the eighth crime fiction novel joe leaphorn jim chee navajo tribal police series by tony hillerman first published in 1988 it was adapted for television as part of the pbs mystery series in 2004