The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series is moving to the fall!In the latest book in the beloved best-selling series of mysteries set in Botswana, Mma Ramotswe is asked to help the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, who is having trouble with her business. The salon has suffered...
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series is moving to the fall!In the latest book in the beloved best-selling series of mysteries set in Botswana, Mma Ramotswe is asked to help the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, who is having trouble with her business. The salon has suffered some unfortunate events, including face cream that burns the skin. Could someone be trying to put the salon out of business? Meanwhile, on the home front, Mma Makutsi is going to have a baby. But in Botswana—a land where family has always been held above all else but which is on the crossroads between old and new—this may be cause for as much controversy as celebration.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780307378415 (0307378411)
ASIN: 307378411
Publish date: November 5th 2013
Publisher: Pantheon
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Cultural,
Africa,
Adult Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Cozy Mystery
Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (#14)
DNF at page 100. I got bored and started skimming ahead, which I usually avoid, but in this case it saved me a few wasted hours of reading. I thought after the last book that maybe McCall Smith was running out of ideas, but it turns out he was keeping at least one up his sleeve, and it’s one of my l...
This book (like the 13-preceding others) was a joy to read, for while there was still detective work, it was more about relationships between the characters. It was like reading an (book-length) account from an overseas relative, Botswana, in this case, and catching up with how everyone has been doi...
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon is Alexander McCall Smith's 14th installment in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. It has the same quiet grace and sense of place as the rest of the series and was a quite enjoyable read. However, the mystery elements of the novel seem a bit forced and lack ...