The Big Over Easy
Jasper Fforde2005

It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and the shattered, tuxedo-clad corpse of local businessman Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III has been Found lying beneath a wall in a shabby part of town.
Humpty was one of life's good guys - so who would want him knocked off ? And is it a coincidence that his ex-wife has just met with a sticky end down at the local biscuit Factory ? A hardened cap on the mean streets of the Thames Valley's most dangerous precinct, DI Jack Spratt has seen it all, and something tells him this is going to be a though case to crack...