An African woman, Mma Ramotswe, uses her inheritance to set up an agency and become the first woman private detective in Botswana. Her common-sense approach to solving the minor (and not-so-minor) problems and mysteries that affect her rural community is both charming and witty.
I enjoyed this book. The characters were likeable and even if it might be a bit unbelievable, it was a good, quick read with just enough mystery to keep me reading til the end. I basically picked it up and couldn't put it down til I was finished.
This book started out slow but quickly became engrossing. Mma Ramotswe is a very entertaining character with many good pieces of advice that can be taken literally.
This series is quite popular, so I gave the first in the series a try. It's kinda cute, and easy to read. This is the kind of series I would have liked a lot when I was in junior high and high school. I won't be rushing out to read all the others in the series, but I might pick one up once in awh...
The ninth book in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. The characters are just as lovely as ever. Precious Ramotswe has reached an age where she is a person of great wisdom. She takes action only after careful reflection, and her actions are taken out of love for her people and her country. Sh...
These are gentle and gently paced books about a young woman whose father, recently deceased, leaves her the means to start her own business as a detective. The first lady detective in Botswana. This is not an easy endeavor...women are not normally found in such careers. With wisdom and patience le...
This is a delightful work and a quick read to boot. Smith alternates between small bits of back-story for the central character, Precious Ramotswe, a fat, young-middle-aged (30s?) divorcee, heavy with intelligence, gumption and cunning, and the mysteries she unravels as the sole detective of the tit...
Review ofTHE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY series by Alexander McCall Smithconsisting ofTHE NO. LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCYTEARS OF THE GIRAFFEMORALITY FOR BEAUTIFUL GIRLSCritics have called Mr. Smith's heroine, Precious Ramotswe, the "Miss Marple of Botswana." I would argue this title to be somewhat ...
Mma Ramotswe is simply perfect. It's hard to believe that the man who writes her and the delightful Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld also writes the tedious Isabel Dalhousie. Well, nobody's perfect
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