Hey everyone! (I told you I'd post another review tonight, way the by, if you're following me on Twitter and I post a review and you're not around/awake the tweet with the link should be top on my profile (or near the top at least))
Yes I know, I have very strange posting habits, but enough about me, what about the book is what you're probably all thinking. Yes! On with the book!
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency was written by the brilliant and widely prolific Scottish Author Alexander McCall Smith. The setting: Botswana, our detective: Precious Ramotswe.
Throughout the book she take on a variety of cases big and small and has a great many adventures along the way. Between bad men and snakes (like, literal snakes, that slither on the ground and hiss, not the slang for a skeevy guy), from affairs to missing children Mma. Ramotswe is on the case! But is she up for the number of cases ahead of her? You'll have to read the book and find out.
This book is a masterfully written book. Within a chapter or 2 you are thrown into Botswana head first and boy is it ever exciting. If there was ever an author of detective fiction that you have to read, especially if you like mystery novels, it's Alexander McCall Smith. (He has 3 series', this one, set in Botswana, one set in Scotland and the Isobel Dalhousie Mysteries.)
I actually suggested that my book club read this book (or 44 Scotland Street, the first in the Scotland Street series but we haven't actually settled on a book to read first, we tried to read Persuasion last year and we all gave up, we had other things to do and it was just too hard to get into.) This year, I suggested that the book club start up again and that we read something that none of us had read, so I suggested something from my list, I'm still waiting for a verdict.
I would heartily recommend this book, especially to those who are in to detective fiction. (Speaking of Detective Fiction, The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith comes out this month, on a sidenote THE TFIOS MOVIE COMES OUT TODAY!!!!!)
That's all for me right now folks, until next time keep reading!
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