If you love a good parody meshed with a detective story, 'The Big Over Easy' could be your next favorite read. Jasper Fforde cleverly intertwines classic nursery rhyme characters with a gritty crime plot, offering satire that's both intelligent and uproariously funny. Engage in this egg-centric whodunnit and you'll never look at Humpty Dumpty the same way again.

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• Lefty Award Nominee (2006)

Dead bodies never look like this.It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and the shattered, tuxedo-clad corpse of local businessman Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III has been found lying beneath a wall in a shabby part of town. Humpty was one of life's good guys - so who would want him knocked off? And is it a coincidence that his ex-wife has just met with a sticky end down at the local biscuit factory?A hardened cop on the mean streets of the Thames Valley's most dangerous precinct, DI Jack Spratt has seen it all, and something tells him this is going to be a tough case to crack...

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