First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, Book 5)

The fifth installment in Jasper Fforde€s New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England€"from the author of Early Riser

Jasper Fforde has thrilled readers everywhere with his gloriously outlandish novels in the Thursday Next and Nursery Crime series. And with another genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainmentis Thursday Next: First Among Sequels, Fforde€s famous literary detective is once again ready to make the world safe for fiction. Thursday Next is grappling with a host of problems in BookWorld: a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes, and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once-hilarious Thomas Hardy novels, to name just a few€"all while captaining the ship Moral Dilemma and facing down her most vicious enemy yet: herself.