Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi Gaborone's No. 1 Lady Detectives do not always agree on
important issues - one being the complex male psyche. Grace believes that food is the source of
men's happiness while Precious takes a more nuanced view: men are not so different from women
they want to be loved and needed too. It is pride that is so often their undoing. Mma Ramotswe
is reminded of this when her husband J. L. B. Matekoni is offered a daunting business
opportunity one which if it fails threatens their existing livelihood including the
detective agency. Somehow Precious must guide her husband to the right decision while being
mindful of how much he wants The Joy and Light Bus Company to succeed. Meanwhile there are
other problems to solve. A wealthy client's elderly father has changed his will making his
devoted live-in nurse a significant beneficiary and the ladies are tasked with uncovering the
woman as a fraud. And then there is the disturbing rumoured maltreatment of children living and
working on a local farm which a concerned Mma Ramotswe is intent on investigating.
Professional and moral duty battles with female instinct and Mma Ramotswe is determined not to
jump to conclusions until she has all the facts. She knows only too well how cunning people can
be. After all she herself is not beyond a little trickery - especially when it comes to
righting wrongs and seeing justice served or when innocent lives are at stake.
