Isabel Dalhousie, the fortyish editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, lives comfortably in Edinburgh in a house filled with art. She's got a morning room that looks out onto the garden; there's even a fox in the garden. Her mornings are spent with coffee and crosswords, followed by philosophical mu...
Alexander McCall Smith combined sleuthing and philosophy. The protaganist, Isabel Dalhousie, is the editor of a philosophy journal. The mystery is engaging but is secondary to the characters and Smith adds information on philosophy and Isabel makes decisions based on it throughout the book. The Sund...
Interesting read, although not quite as complete as I might like. In Edinburgh Isabel witnesses a fall in a concert hall where a man dies, she has questions as to whether it's an accident or deliberate and starts to look into it. It is obviously a first book in a series setting up further books in t...
Isabel Dalhousie is a middle aged spinster in Edinburgh, a philosopher with some time on her hands and a niece called Cat (who is with the wrong man). All of which means she has a tendency to get involved in other people's lives. She's at a concert at the Usher hall when she sees a man fall from the...
I'm not sure what word I'm looking for to describe this book: gentle, genteel, genial, maybe all of the above. The novel is written by the author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency but this is the first book in a different series. Isabel Dalhousie lives quite comfortably in Edinburgh, where she e...
I thought this book was pretty good, not as quirky and unique as the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, but still all right. I didn't mind the long philosophical tangents either. What I like most about this book (and the others in the series) are the vivid descriptions of Scotland and Edinburgh. I love ...
Not particularly enjoying being preached at and ethical brow-beating is the thinly disguised bottom line here. Will I make it through to the end?The answer to that question is 'no' and even the Edinburgh setting was not enough to entice me to stay any longer.
I found the inclusion of Isabel's internal dialogue in this book rather irritating. Some of the ideas and themes were revisited too frequently for my taste, making me feel rather patronised by the author. Yes, I got that the first time it was mentioned. Further, I felt the motives for the actions or...
Rating: 3.5* of fiveThe Book Report: Isabel Dalhousie is a quiet, contented woman. She's got all the money she will ever need, she lives in a comfortable home where she grew up, she has survived the ghastly experience of loving a rotten man. She edits the Review of Applied Ethics because she's a phi...
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