The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith
4/5
Anchor Books 235 pages January 1, 1998
Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's first and finest female private detective, sets up shop in Gaborone and tackles cases ranging from missing husbands to suspected poisoners. With warmth, wisdom, and a love of bush tea, Mma Ramotswe solves problems the old-fashioned way.
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This book is a warm hug in mystery form, and it's the hug you didn't know you needed. Mma Ramotswe is wise, funny, and endlessly charming — Jim would trust her with any case, including finding his missing book. It's gentle and humane in a genre that often runs dark, and the Botswana setting is beautifully rendered. Four worms — proof that mysteries don't need body counts to be great.
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