![]() Recently, the Mokolodi Game Preserve manager feels an infectious fear spreading among his workers, and a local doctor may be falsifying blood pressure readings. Then, a cobra is found in the offices of the No. Blue Shoes and Happiness – A new and rather too brusque advice columnist is appearing in the local paper.But what finally rattles Mma Ramotswe’s normally unshakable composure is a visitor who forces her to confront a difficult secret from her past. Matekoni is already overburdened with work. And at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, where Mr J.L.B. Her associate, Mma Makutsi, also has a full plate. Precious is busier than usual at the detective agency when she discovers an intruder in her house on Zebra Drive and a pumpkin on her porch. In The Company of Cheerful Ladies – also known as The Night-Time Dancer.Are these men interested in the lady or just her money? This may be a difficult case, but it’s just the kind of problem Mma Ramotswe likes. She has been approached by a wealthy lady to check up on several suitors. Besides Mma Ramotswe herself has weighty matters on her mind. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe understands that she should not put too much pressure on him, as he has other concerns, especially a hair-raising request from the ever persuasive Mma Potokwane, matron of the orphan farm. The Full Cupboard of Life – Still engaged to the estimable Mr J.L.B.But, of course, Precious will manage these things, as she always does, with her uncanny insight and her good heart. And worse, a rival detective agency has opened in town-an agency that does not have the gentle approach to business that Mma Ramotswe’s does. Her able assistant, Mma Makutsi, wants a husband. Matekoni has not set the date for their marriage. The Kalahari Typing School for Men – Mma Precious Ramotswe has a house, two adopted children, a fine fiancé.Matekoni is more complicated then he seems. Yet her business is having money problems, and when other difficulties arise at her fiancé’s Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, she discovers the reliable Mr J.L.B. Morality for Beautiful Girls – Precious Ramotswe investigates the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important “Government Man,” and the moral character of the four finalists of the Miss Beauty and Integrity Contest, the winner of which will almost certainly be a contestant for the title of Miss Botswana.Matekoni, and the promotion of her talented secretary (a graduate of the Botswana Secretarial College, with a mark of 97 per cent), she also finds her family suddenly and unexpectedly increased by two. In the midst of resolving uncertainties, pondering her impending marriage to a good, kind man, Mr. Tears of the Giraffe – Precious Ramotswe tracks a wayward wife, uncovers an unscrupulous maid, and searches for an American man who disappeared into the plains many years ago.But the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – Precious Ramotswe is drawn to her profession to “help people with problems in their lives.” Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Books in Order: When she is 34 years old, using the inheritance from her father, Mma Ramotswe moved to the capital city Gaborone to start up her detective agency? She bought a house for herself and found an office for her new business. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency is a series of crime novels by British writer Alexander McCall Smith set in Botswana and featuring the character Mma Precious Ramotswe. Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.ĭo you remember the TV show of the same name from HBO/BBC? Well, it was an adaptation, as you may have guessed.
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