Let me find out

In Botswana, a most traditional middle-aged woman, Mme Ramotswe, decides to do the most untraditional thing when her father dies. She opens the first-ever detective agency. Alexander M. Smith’s novel moves slowly: We hear stories of lost children and medicine men, missing husbands, pretend-fathers. As the woman investigates - musing and frowning in many long paragraphs in-between – we imagine ourselves just a little wiser.