The release date for the English version of 'The Big Over Easy' by
Jasper Fforde is Jul 2006. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Easter in Reading is not a good time for eggs, and nobody can remember when they last saw the sun. Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, a minor baronet, a former billionaire philanthropist, and an ovoid D-class nursery star, is discovered dead, broken, behind a wall in a run-down section of the town. It all leads to his ex-wife, who shot herself out of convenience.
Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary, however, are not persuaded. Their superiors at the Reading Police Department, who are still bitter over their inability to prove the Three Pigs' guilt of killing Mr. Wolff, do not share this opinion. Soon after, Jack and Mary are confronted with a dark conspiracy involving worldwide money laundering, gold smuggling, beantalk issues, giants applying for refuge, and the competitive world of international chiropody.
Furthermore, the JellyMan is scheduled to visit the city...