The Big over Easy

I just finished this book, and it was beautiful.

For those of you to whom I have not gushed incessantly about this book, it is by Jasper Fforde, who also wrote an excellent series on the spunky and fun Thursday Next.

It's the first book in his Nursery Crimes series, a reinvention of old, beloved nursery rhymes in the world of detective Jack Spratt (yes, yes, the one who would eat no fat) and his assistant Mary Mary.

Fforde's books seem to take forever to read, but then they're over too soon. Just when I thought I'd figured out the plot, he threw me a curveball. I loved every minute of it; I rarely read a book in which I cannot guess most of the major twists.

For anyone who is interested, this book finally answered the age-old question, "How did Humpty Dumpty REALLY die?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Over_Easy