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The delightful seventeenth installment of the ever-popular, internationally bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective, is a little short on help. The Chief Associate-Co-Director of the agency, Grace Makutsi, is busy with her own case, her client none other than their erstwhile assistant, Mr. Polopetsi, who has unwittingly involved himself in a pyramid scheme. The agency's other assistant, Charlie, may also need more help than he can offer, newly embroiled in a romance with a glamorous woman about whom the others have their doubts. So when a young Canadian woman approaches Mma Ramotswe with a complex case, it's up to her alone to solve it--with her signature intuition and insight, of course. The young woman spent part of her childhood in Botswana and needs help finding a long-lost acquaintance. But much time has passed, and her memory yields few clues. The difficult search--and the unexpected results--will remind them all that sometimes it's those we think we know best who most surprise us.
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What can you say about the skill of an author that's on book #17 for the same 2 women but holy cow! These women are still interesting, still growing in character and personality, and thank goodness their mysteries are not always based on someone's death!
My personality is more like Mma Makutse's so I really look up to Mma Ramotswe's compassion, and calm, delay in response, and contemplation before choosing a response or action.
As other reviews have mentioned reading this book out of sequence does not create alot frustration when missing a book or two, but reading several of the first in the series helps set the characters' personalities and their relationships more easily in the mind.
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22 primary books26 released booksNo. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a 26-book series with 22 primary works first released in 1995 with contributions by Alexander McCall Smith.