The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency S.)

by Alexander McCall Smith | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 034911675x Global Overview for this book
Registered by Sterile of Burnley, Lancashire United Kingdom on 7/17/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by Sterile from Burnley, Lancashire United Kingdom on Sunday, July 17, 2005

This is the first book in a series of linked short detective stories in the unlikely setting of Botswana, featuring Precious Ramotswe and her colleagues, neighbours and friends, including Mr JLB Matekoni who runs the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motor Company. The characters, and the stories, are a real delight. The whole slightly unusual premise of an African lady detective solving simple real-life could-happen-to-anyone domestic cases on little more than her own intuition (helped on her way by cups of strong bush tea, friendly neighbourly advice and a small white van of dubious reliability) is such a refreshing change to some of the technical and sometimes far fetched psychological thrillers which are seemingly ever-present these days.

RELEASE NOTES:

Relay release to Butterfly-noir. Airmail Portugal 10 December.

Journal Entry 3 by butterfly-noir from Lisboa - City, Lisboa (cidade) Portugal on Monday, December 19, 2005
it´s here. thank you sterile

Journal Entry 4 by butterfly-noir from Lisboa - City, Lisboa (cidade) Portugal on Thursday, July 3, 2008
read this book some time ago so its hard to make a good review whit the distance. It as ok, but really not me cup of tea. in spite of that I recomend it, whit's a good book, just to "sugar and spice" form my taste.

sending it to pequete who took it from a vritual bookbox. enjoy

Journal Entry 5 by Pequete from Bragança, Bragança Portugal on Saturday, July 5, 2008
Thanks b-noir. It looks good...

Journal Entry 6 by Pequete at Bragança, Bragança Portugal on Monday, October 11, 2021
I’ve been wanting to read this book for a long time. I had it on my TBR pile in 2008 but then somehow lost it and now I found it again.

I loved to read about the life of Precious Ramotswe, a woman who had a happy childhood in Botswana, but a hard life as a very young woman, until she decides to set up a detective agency with the money she inherited after the death of her father.

The book is apparently a light cosy read, a sort of African Miss Marple, only younger and feminist. But I found it to be a lot more than a light cosy read, as embedded in the mystery stories, we learn a lot about life in Botswana and what it means to be human.

Here is an example of an excerpt that I liked:

There was a slight smell of wood-smoke in the air, a smell that tugged at her heart because it reminded her of mornings around the fire in Mochudi. She would go back there, she thought, when she had worked long enough to retire. She would buy a house, or build one perhaps, and ask some of her cousins to live with her. They would grow melons on the lands and might even buy a small shop in the village; and every morning she could sit in front of her house and sniff at the wood-smoke and look forward to spending the day talking with her friends. How sorry she felt for white people, who couldn’t do any of this, and who were always dashing around and worrying themselves over things that were going to happen anyway. What use was it having all that money if you could never sit still or just watch your cattle eating grass? None, in her view; none at all, and yet they did not know it. Every so often you met a white person who understood, who realised how things really were; but these people were few and far between and the other white people often treated them with suspicion.

It is now available for new readers.

Journal Entry 7 by Pequete at Setúbal, Setúbal Portugal on Friday, November 11, 2022

Released 1 yr ago (11/12/2022 UTC) at Setúbal, Setúbal Portugal

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Enviado hoje em RABCK para a cometa54.

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