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The Big Over Easy

Nursery Crime Adventures, Book 1

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'It looks like he died from injuries sustained during a fall....' Best-selling author Jasper Fforde begins an effervescent new series.

It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery favourite, large egg, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of town.

Following the pathologist's careful reconstruction of Humpty's shell, Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his Sergeant, Mary Mary, are soon grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, the illegal Bearnaise sauce market, corporate politics and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody.

As Jack and Mary stumble around the streets of Reading in Jack's lime green Austin Allegro, the clues pile up, but Jack has his own problems to deal with. And on top of everything else, the JellyMan is coming to town....

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Still has annoying music but as always brilliantly written. The world is so close to our own you feel you can visit it and you know the characters already.
The narration was full of characters but the female characters sounded a weird.
All in all I really enjoyed this first in series book and will be starting the next immediately.

Impressive

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This book is so clever! Jasper must have sat giggling to himself as he wrote it. I am so impressed by how the narrative unfolds and includes the different nursery rhymes. I recommend this book to anyone with dark humour and enjoys puns!

Pun-tastic Brilliance

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I love Jasper Fforde’s books, this one was no exception. I hope there are more in the series coming

Great read, loved the plotline

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Thank you once again for using your warped humour to make me laugh!
Fun escapism!

Quirky, twisty and clever - so enjoyable!

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This is a pure delight, with the intermingling of crime and nursery characters living in the world, this shouldn't work, but does and beautifully, it engaged me both as a crime mystery and also on the humour and how nursery stories can be viewed as crimes. The narration is spot on.

A Procedural crime story with a twist

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