McCall Smith, Alexander: From a Far and Lovely Country

THE ONE WHERE MMA RAMOTSWE‘S TACT IS PUT TO THE TEST If you are the founder and Managing Director of the No. 1 Ladies‘ Detective Agency you may expect complete strangers to approach you with their problems when they see you having dinner with your husband in a peri-peri restaurant. And if you are Precious Ramotswe, you are a kind and helpful person who will take on a quest to find the relatives of a man who, many years ago, left the country for the uncertainties and dangers of a distant conflict. While that is going on, though, there may be other things that claim your attention - such as the shocking news that a club that calls itself the Cool Singles Evening Club is encouraging married men to pretend to be single and meet women under false pretences. Who can be behind such a distasteful venture? Mma Ramotswe and her assistant, Grace Makutsi, will need all their tact, affability and good sense to disentangle such delicate disputes. ‘An escape from life‘s woes as well as a suggestion for how to make the whole deal more palatable - fragility, fruit cake and all‘ Boston Globe ‘A total delight‘ Booklist