A line from the book: Conscience...walks with us; an unobtrusive companion, unseen, perhaps, but still audible. - Chapter 13
Paperback blurb: Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher and a reluctant sleuth.
When a chance conversation draws her into the case of a doctor whose career has been ruined, she cannot ignore what may be a miscarriage of justice.
Because for Isabel ethics are not theoretical at all: they are a matter of life and death.
As she attempts to unravel the truth, Isabel is also required to deal with challenges in her own life: spending more time with her son; looking after her niece Cat's delicatessen; and, most alarmingly, accommodating boyfriend Jamie's friendship with the thoroughly unlikeable Nick Smart, from which she's excluded.
While treading a difficult path between trust and gullibility, altruism and interference, Isabel keeps in her sights the small but certain comforts of family, philosophy and a fine Saturday morning.
The Comfort of Saturdays was first published in 2008 and in the USA, this book is entitled The Comforts of A Muddy Saturday.
My take: Isabel Dalhousie more than often finds herself in a difficult position, being a philosopher as she is. She agonises over things more frequently than the next person. I think her biggest problem is she can hardly refuse to ignore a cry for help, be it from a stranger or a friend, and she knows it too. She cannot help herself. In fact, whatever situation that catches her moral attention, there she will be doing her best to help. She is far from being a intermeddler, that she certainly is not. When you get to know her well, you will find Isabel Dalhousie a very delightful and conscientious lady. The setting of Edinburgh is the perfect backdrop for Isabel's sleuthing. I am glad there are a few more books for me to go yet in this series.
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Happy reading.
Rating: 3/5
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