Precious and Grace

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Alexander McCall Smith: Precious and Grace (2016, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

English language

Published Jan. 14, 2016 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-4087-0811-8
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5 stars (1 review)

"The delightful seventeenth installment of the ever-popular, perennially best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective, is a little short on help. The co-director of the agency, Grace Makutsi, is busy with her own case, her client none other than their erstwhile assistant, Mr. Polopetsi, who has unwittingly involved himself in a pyramid scheme. The agency's other assistant, Charlie, may also need more help than he can offer, as he is newly embroiled in a romance with a glamorous woman about whom the others have their doubts. So when a young Canadian woman approaches Mma Ramotswe with a complex case, it's up to her alone to solve it--with her signature intuition and insight, of course. The young woman spent part of her childhood in Botswana and needs help finding a long-lost acquaintance. But much time has passed, and her memory yields few clues. The difficult …

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Subjects

  • Ramotswe, precious (fictitious character), fiction
  • Private investigators, fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
  • Botswana, fiction