"The Big Over Easy", Jasper Fforde
This is the first of Fforde's books not to feature the literary detective Thursday Next, and while functionling very respectably as a stand-alone book, those that have read the four Thursday books (particularly The Well Of Lost Plots) will, I think, get more out of this one in terms of in-jokes, references and general bizarreness.
This book revolves around the Nursery Crime division of the Reading police force, with DI Jack Spratt and DS Mary Mary investigating the death of one Humperdinck Dumpty, from injuries sustained from falling off a wall. Did he jump, was he pushed, and can Mrs Singh the pathologist succeed where all the King's Men failed, in putting the pieces back together again?
Read it. Read the others first if you can. And then explore the huge suite of websites that accompany the books, giving book upgrades, 'making of' wordumentaries and all manner of silliness (quite a lot of which involves dodos).
posted by Izzy @ 8:01 pm
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