Hardback: One quiet morning as she sips her redbush tea, the proprietress of the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency has the firmest impression that turmoil is coming to Tlokweng Road.
In this, as in almost all matters, Precious Ramotswe is right. Change is heralded by Mma Makutsi's arrival bearing a business plan for Mma Ramotswe and an outline of her own ambitions as a restaurateur with the Handsome Man's De Luxe Café.
Before the day is out, the agency has both gained a dubiously qualified new Assistant Detective and taken on the challenge of identifying a lady with no name and no memory, her sole landmark the premises of Sengupta Office Supplies.
'I hope that you will discover something,' said Miss Rose. 'Mrs is very keen to find out who she is so that she can go back to her own home and her own people.'
Mma Ramotswe nodded reassuringly. She had no idea how to proceed in this case. But she wanted to try, because she had taken to Mrs, and could imagine how terrible it must be to find yourself cast adrift in the world, not knowing who or where you are, but aware that there must be people who are missing you and wanting you home.
But when Mma Makutsi's weakness for the underdog threatens her entrepreneurial future, Charlie is led astray and Violet Sephotho turns restaurant critic, only Mma Ramotswe's infallible instincts - that no one comes from nowhere, and however meandering the dusty path through the Botswana bush, it will lead you home - can transform disruption into a force for good.
About the author: Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over eighty books on a wide array of subjects. For many years, he was Professor of Medical Law at Edinburgh University and served on national and international bioethics bodies. Then in 1999, he achieved global recognition for his award-winning series The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, and thereafter has devoted his time to the writing of fiction, including the 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie series. His books have been translated into forty-six languages. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife Elizabeth, a doctor.
The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café (2014) is the fifteenth book in The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
Rating: 5/5
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