Welcome to Botswana, Africa, home to Precious Ramotswe, private detective. Her Daddy's dying request was that she buy her own business with the money he was leaving her, and she decided Africa needed a lady private detective. Botswana is a place of cattle, fat women dealing with roving husbands, dusty children and very big hearts.
This is not a traditional mystery in which person A dies at the beginning and we follow the main character through till the "Ah HA! It was the professor in the library with a candlestick!". Instead, we follow Precious as she moves through life on the edge of the Kalahari as she figures out the case of the missing husband, the boy lost to witchcraft, the doctor who isn't quite what he seems and her various friendships with people in the town. All the little stories are woven beautifully into one larger one that seem to just pull you along.
I stumbled across this series after catching some episodes on HBO when the Husband and I were out of town. The HBO series was a lot of fun and the book is really a delightful, refreshing read.
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These books seem to be wildly popular, but I've steered clear of them so far, after trying something else written by the author that didn't work for me. I am encouraged by the fact that you liked it.
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