Precious and Grace (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency)

Published May 4, 2017 by ABACUS.

ISBN:: 978-0-349-14203-6

(2 reviews)

"The delightful seventeenth installment of the ever-popular, perennially best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective, is a little short on help. The 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, as he is 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 …

"The delightful seventeenth installment of the ever-popular, perennially best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective, is a little short on help. The 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, as he is 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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Andrew (andrewspink@mastadon.green) reviewed Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith

Review of 'Precious and Grace' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Alexander McCall Smith has done it again. Somehow he manages to combine a realistic view of the negative aspects of human nature with a clear belief of the fundamentally good nature of people as expressed by the main characters' sympathetic and kind outlook. With all the media being filled with reports of terrorists and so on, it can lead to a jaded view of humanity. But after reading this book you genuinely have the feeling the perhaps, after all, people are fundamentally good and if they do bad things, that is for a reason. What is particularly impressive is that the author manages to convey that without sentimentality and with great wit. Apparently I wasn't laughing out loud as much reading this one as much as some of the others, but nevertheless, it was still very entertaining and humorous.

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April 22, 2022