Best Seller Book Club, Book of the Month: July, 2004.
Back to Underfoot Book Forum Homepage.The #1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith  Visit the Underfoot Book Forum's user ForumVisit the Best Seller Book Club ForumView The #1 Ladies Detective Agency Forum!Inside The Cover: This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith’s widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession "to help people with problems in their lives." Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors. From the Back Cover: "The Miss Marple of Botswana." - The New York Times Book Review "Smart and sassy...Precious’ progress is charted in passages that have the power to amuse or shock or touch the heart, sometimes all at once." - Los Angeles Times "The author’s prose has the merits of simplicity, euphony and precision. His descriptions leave one as if standing in the Botswana landscape. This is art that conceals art. I haven’t read anything with such alloyed pleasure for a long time." - Anthony Daniels, The Sunday Telegraph About the Author: Alexander McCall Smith is a professor of medical law at Edinburgh University. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and taught law at the University of Botswana. He is the author of over fifty books on a wide range of subjects, including specialist titles such as Forensic Aspects of Sleep and The Criminal Law of Botswana, children's books such as The Perfect Hamburger, and a collection of stories called Portuguese Irregular Verbs. Other Books in the series: |
