Thursday is on her toughest assignment yet, desperate to uneradicate Landen, prevent a coup by Yorrick Kaine, end the hostile takeover in Hamlet, stop Armageddon… And who will babysit her son while she does it?
Even though the sadistic Gingerbreadman broke out of prison, Det Jack Sprat and Sgt Mary Mary are demoted to searching for a missing journalist. Last seen at the three bears’ house.
Was Humpty’s fall an accident, or was it murder? It’s up to giant killer Jack Spratt of the Nursery Crime Division to find out whodunnit.
Thursday Next is hiding out, but the Well is a linguistic free-for-all with a murderer stalking Jurisfiction agents and nobody is safe, least of all Thursday herself.
Magic is fading and fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs an employment agency for magicians. But then the visions start, predicting the death of the world’s last dragon.
The real Thursday retired to RealWorld, and the Council begs written Thursday to be their emissary to the warring Genre factions and falls into a fiendish plot.