The Gingerbreadman - psychopath, sadist, genius, convicted murderer and biscuit is loose in the streets of Reading. It isn't Jack Spratt's case. He and Mary Mary have been demoted following Jack's poor judgement involving the poisoning of Mr Bun, the baker.
Industry Reviews
'What makes Fforde a star is not his ebullient cleverness, but the elusive sympathy factor. However ridiculous his themes seem, his characters have a compelling immediacy.' -- Independent 'The Fourth Bear is both a shrewd satire on modern times... and an immaculately plotted police procedural... What makes Fforde a star is not his ebullient cleverness, but the elusive sympathy factor. However ridiculous his themes seem, his characters have a compelling immediacy.' -- Christina Hardyment, Independent 'It would be hard not to be won over by Fforde's undeniable energy and the sheer, unrelenting number of gags' -- Daily Mail 'What makes Fforde a star is not his ebullient cleverness, but the elusive sympathy factor. However ridiculous his themes seem, his characters have a compelling immediacy.' -- Independent 'It would be hard not to be won over by Fforde's undeniable energy and the sheer, unrelenting number of gags' -- Daily Mail 'The Fourth Bear is both a shrewd satire on modern times... and an immaculately plotted police procedural... What makes Fforde a star is not his ebullient cleverness, but the elusive sympathy factor. However ridiculous his themes seem, his characters have a compelling immediacy.' -- Christina Hardyment, Independent Praise for Jasper Fforde -- : 'Fforde is a master entertainer, and a wordsmith of dexterous genius.' -- Scotsman 'This year's grown-up J K Rowling' -- The Sunday Times 'Consistently clever' -- Publishers Weekly 'I love it. THE BIG OVER EASY is great not just because it's very funny...but also because it works properly as a whodunit...Comic genius.' -- Observer 20050619 'A riot of puns, in-jokes and literary allusions that Fforde carries off with aplomb' -- Daily Mail 20050619 'Consistently clever' -- Publishers Weekly 20050619 'This is the first if best-selling Fforde's hilarious, absurd and utterly compelling new series of nursery crimes for adults.' -- Daily Mirror 20050619 'Fforde offers a cascade of puns, plays on words, surrealism, satire and verbal virtuosity...Astonishing, he is funny for 400 pages' -- The Times 20050619 'Jasper Fforde here mixes nursery rhymes with golden age detective fiction to produce something very accomplished indeed.' -- Guardian 20050619 'Fforde's books are more than an ingenious idea. They are written with buoyant zest and are tautly plotted. They have empathetic heroes and heroines who nearly make terribly mistakes and suitably dastardly villains who do. They also have more twists and turns than Christie, and are embellished with the rich details of a Dickens or Pratchett. As Humpty Dumpty's life-story is revealed, the mystery becomes curiouser and curiouser, and the compulsion to find out what is going on increases. A real treat.' -- Independent 20050619 'Fans of the late Douglas Adams or, even, Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde' -- Herald 20050619 'If you haven't read Jasper Fforde before, THE BIG OVER EASY, is likely to come as a surprise ...the combination of fantasy and (more of less) classic murder makes a wild and enjoyable change' -- Sunday Telegraph 20050619
