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The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde

3.0

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The Fourth Bear is the second in Fforde's Nursery Crime series, in which nursery rhyme characters are real(-ish) and subject to actual laws. Our main participants this time are Goldilocks and the Three Bears and the Gingerbreadman, who has escaped from jail and is again on a murderous rampage. DCI Jack Spratt and his sergeant Mary Mary are not on the case, as they've been sidelined after letting Red Riding Hood and her grandmother get eaten by the wolf. Oops.
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