Finished "The Big Over Easy" yesterday and ploughing "The Fourth Bear". Jasper Fforde's a genius. Just to give you a bit of a taste.

Svlad Cjelli would be proud no end. As I noted elsewhere, a Nursery Crime book reads like a Dirk Gently adventure written by Sir Terry himself with only a least bit of help from Neil Gaiman. The fact that Fforde doesn't grow the NCD series beyond just a few novels is rather to his advantage — there is only so much you can do with stuffing the classical European fairy tale characters into the modern world. Pratchett, in his turn, can (yes, I still use present tense here) grow Discworld indefinitely, because he fully owns the turf.

Can't wait to read Fforde's other titles, esp. the "Shades of Grey".