The Full Cupboard of Life
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780756947866 (0756947863)
Publish date: January 1st 2005
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Pages no: 198
Edition language: English
Category:
Humor,
Cultural,
Africa,
Adult Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Detective,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Cozy Mystery
Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (#5)
After reading the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency a couple of years ago, I accumulated a few of these, and went through 6 in less than a month. They're very quick reads - I read 2 and part-of-a-third in one day.They're very entertaining, charming, and compulsively readable. Although marketed as myster...
It was fun to catch up with the ongoing drama among all the various characters in this installment though there was not much mystery in the plot. Listened to the audio version which was read by Lisette Lecat who always does a great job.
Okay enough, but what would have kicked it to a 3 or 4 for me is if the wedding had actually been Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni's idea, revealed as a surprising twist at the end of the novel. About those orphans--what are they, props? They barely figure in the narrative at all.
Comfort reading. That's what this series is for me. In this we found Mma Ramotswe involved in a rather sensitive case of a woman who needs to find out which of her suitors is really interested in her. Not all truths are good to know and sometimes we do not want to really know the facts. Everything i...
Mma Rwatse continues to wonder why her fiancée is so reluctant to tie the knot, while taking on a case for a rich woman who wants Precious to check out several beaus to see who is after her money and who is honest. Matekoni is tricked by the head of the orphanage into agreeing to skydive as a way o...
16 years ago
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