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Title: Clever creation where nursery rhymes and stories become part of the "real" world
Review: This is the second book in the Nursery Crimes series, with Detective Jack Spratt and his cohort Sgt Mary Mary on the case. The Gingerbreadman, a cunning mass murderer who has leanings towards Hannibal Lecter, has escaped and the Nursery Crimes division expects to be on the case. However, Jack is suspended and is put on leave until he completes a psychiatric evaluation. As he helps Mary and Ashley, an alien who works on the ceiling of their office investigate a blonde missing reporter last seen at the house of 3 bears while she was investigating the deaths of prize cucumber growers. To complicate matters, Jack has bought a car from a Mr Grey, to which damage appears only on a picture in the boot, and to make matters worse, Punch and Judy have moved in next door to his family. The author manages to tie these disparate plot elements together in a fun, fanciful and literary joke driven story that was a delight to read.
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