If you are the founder and Managing Director of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency you may
expect complete strangers to approach you with their problems when they see you having dinner
with your husband in a peri-peri restaurant. And if you are Precious Ramotswe you are a kind
and helpful person who will be willing to take on a quest to find the relatives of a man who
many years ago left the country for the uncertainties and dangers of a distant conflict. While
that is going on though there may be other things that claim your attention - such as the
shocking news that a club that calls itself the Cool Singles Evening Club is encouraging
married men to pretend to be single and meet women under false pretences. Who can be behind
such a distasteful venture? Mma Ramotswe shows great tact in dealing with this situation and
avoids harm to the innocent. And all the time she and her assistant Grace Makutsi are
getting on with their normal lives - which of course include birthdays and the buying of
birthday presents. A new dress makes a fine present but not if when being tried on it splits
in a way that is thought to be irreparable. Mma Potokwani has dealt with situations far worse
that and in dealing with this local emergency she shows her characteristic wisdom. At the end
of the day disaster is averted. Life in Botswana that far and lovely country of the title
continues smoothly which is what Mma Ramotswe and her friends want - and most certainly
deserve.
