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The Fourth Bear (Hardcover)
by Jasper Fforde (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars  (9 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (6 Jul 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340835710
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340835715
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.6 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 113,970 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Can Reading get any more dangerous?, 9 Aug 2006
By Chris Chalk "Chris" (Croydon, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Crimes are afoot and only one man can hope to untangle the web of intrigue that surrounds them. That man however has a secret, a PDR related secret...

DCI Jack Spratt and DS Mary Mary return to fight crime in the Reading's devilish underbelly ably supported by the slightly underused (in this book) Gretel but the sublimely used DC Ash - who by chance is an alien...

Jack works for the NCD (Nursery Crime Division) and when a reporter is found dead and in a lot of pieces you wouldn't imagine this to be a case that would come under his jurisdiction. However the dead reporter has a rather famous name - Goldilocks. Immediately alerted Jack follows the trail to the 3 bears where immediately he realised Goldilocks' fate was sealed from the moment she ate the porridge... What he also concludes is that maybe all is not as it should be in the Bears household, and who could this mysterious 4th bear be?

The level of intrigue and suspense that Jasper Fforde injects into his books is wonderful, he even manages to add in pointless characters (Dorian Grey) that have unexpected but at the same time completely expected consequences! His use of clichés and expected plot twists is wonderful, I mean how can a book joke about which plot devise they are going to use, then use it and yet the reader is still going to sit there wondering how it all happened!?

It is genius!

The only reason this book doesn't get the full 5 stars is the slightly too obvious ending. By Obvious I don't that the main protagonist is clear from the outset I mean that the way in which the ending is played out is just a little too Hercule Poirot for my liking, Jack and Mary may as well have lined up all the suspects in a room to reveal the bad guy...

That however is only a small gripe and to be honest I am probably only being slightly harsh because of how much I am impressed by all of the other books he has done! I loved the character extension with the relationship between Jack and his wife Madeleine and also the hugely comic Punch & Judy.

Read, enjoy and leave your sense of reality firmly by the door...
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