The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Book 1)
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe--with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi--navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea. 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. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency received two Booker Judges' Special Recommendations and was voted one of the International Books of the Year and the Millennium by the Times Literary Supplement.
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Easy read... or listen in my case because I did it as an audiobook. Some fun stories, interesting cultural reflections and just a simple story.
This is a book I’d describe as a “comfort book”. Whenever you need something to read that isn’t taxing but still entertaining or a bedtime story to lull you to sleep, that’s a comfort book. Precious Ramotswe is cunning and ambitious. I like the interactions between the different country peoples and the biases because it makes the characters more human. If you’d like this to be a book to read during bedtime, I’d suggest the audiobook.
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