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This is more like it! After the disappointing The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection with its collection of lame stories with no overarching plot and rather limply written characters, this is back to a good story and realistic people. The main story is about a couple of dead cows and who killed the Leggi tutto

In this 12th book in the "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" series Mma Makutski plans her long-awaited wedding to Phuti Radiphuti while Mma Ramotswe handles a difficult case. The book can be read as a standalone, but familiarity with the series is a plus. ***** Mma Ramotswe, the detective agency owner, i Leggi tutto

Wonderful. Like a warm tasty comforting free meal on a cold night. Some surprising developments in the case of Charlie the apprentice who finds out that he has twins to support, until Precious Ramotswe discovers that perhaps he is not the father after all. Precious finally gets her tiny white van ba Leggi tutto

*fourth read* Still love this series. It's reliably great. *third read* Third read, and still great. I just love this series. If you ever want a smile, try these books. I highly recommend the audio performances by Lisette Lecat. She is unmatched. She turns a really good book into something truly spect Leggi tutto

I sit here, sipping a steaming mug of African red bush tea, wondering how to convey to you why I feel about Alexander McCall Smith, in general, and this book, in particular, as I do. Here in Atlanta there was a local right-wing talk-show host, eventually nationally syndicated and now retired (and, I Leggi tutto

"Taking her old shoes out of the box into which Paticia had tucked them, she slipped them back on her feet and continued on her way to the Tlokweng Road. One or two people had witnessed the tragedy, or at least had seen part of it: a young man passing by, a boy on a bicycle, an old man standing in t Leggi tutto

In the 12th volume of this delightful series, Botswana’s most renowned lady detective looks into a mysterious event on a farmer’s land. Cattle have been slashed. Who would do such a thing? Of course Precious Ramotswe and her able, if somewhat shoe-addled assistant, Grace Makutsi, are on the case, an Leggi tutto

Alexander McCall Smith's No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series is one of my favorite series. This installment is probably the best of the twelve books so far. In this book, Precious Ramotswe thinks at one point: ". . . she would always take the time to drink tea, to look at the sky, and to talk. What

This one was way too repetitive if you've read others in the series. Everyone does what you expect them to do - and nothing they haven't done before. One of the side stories fizzles out into absolutely nothing (almost as if the author forgot he had started that particular thread) and the "main myste Leggi tutto

Join Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, for the weeks that elapse in this charming tale of life in Botswana, and you may emerge with fresh perspective on life. Mma Ramotswe — the prefix is a title akin to “Ms.” — and those who surround her live their lives in a slow Leggi tutto