The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006Reviewed by L.D.Y.
Hardcover (available in trade), 382 pages, 2006
Rating: 9/10
Reason for Reading: Bet you can’t read just one.
Synopsis: Detective Inspector Jack Spratt, along with the other members of the Nursery Crime Division, is hot on the trail of a fresh crime, this time involving a missing journalist nicknamed ‘Goldy,’ some bears, and - just in case you thought you knew where this was going - cucumbers and the escaped mental patient, the Gingerbreadman. It turns out the real mystery began when Goldy left the house of the three bears and wandered into a minefield of trouble…



