The Double Comfort Safari Club Alexander McCall Smith

The Double Comfort Safari Club

Author: Alexander McCall Smith

Publisher: Cengage Gale

Publication Date: 20 April, 2010

ISBN: 9781410425751

Pages: 302

Subjects: Mystery

Available as: Trade Cloth, 978-0-375-42450-2 Trade Cloth, 978-1-4104-2575-1 Trade Paper, 978-1-59413-433-3 E-Book - netLibrary, 978-1-4416-3954-7

Description:

The delightful new installment in this bestselling series finds Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi traveling to the north of Botswana, to the stunning Okavango Delta, to visit a safari lodge where there have been several unexplained and troubling events -- including the demise of one of the guests. When they arrive the ladies' eyes are opened, as if for the first time, to the natural beauty of their home land. But they are soon drawn into a world filled with a different kind of wildlife.

PW Publishers Weekly

Review Source: Publishers Weekly

Review Date: 2010-02-08

As in 2009's Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, the previous entry in this beguiling, bestselling series, a personal crisis for one of the leads, rather than a mystery, drives the plot of Smith's superb 12th novel set in Botswana featuring his infinitely understanding sleuth, Precious Ramotswe. When a delivery truck backs into Phuti Radiphuti, the fiance of Mma Ramotswe's prickly and insecure assistant, Grace Makutsi, and crushes his leg against a wall, Phuti's rude aunt won't allow Grace to visit her beloved in the hospital. Meanwhile, the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency tries to help the executor of an American woman, who wished to leave some money to a kind tour guide, but couldn't recall the guide's name. The resolution to the problem of another client, who was cheated out of his home by a gold-digger, might strike some as unduly fortuitous, but it makes sense within the framework of these books, which are more about humanity than logic. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved