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Mma Precious Ramotswe, Botswana-based owner of the longest established, most reputable and only local detective agency entirely run by ladies, is back in fine form in this latest installment of the always-wonderful #1LadiesDetectiveAgency series.

With her gentle goodness, old-school Botswanan morality and “ability to see the whole thing as part of a long story”, (and of course, aided and abetted by her cherished Clovis Andersen and his works “The Principles of Private Detection”), Mma Ramostwe has the kind of life, and the kind of attitude, that makes a reader yearn for kinder, simpler times, when a cup of red bush tree, and a whole heap love and compassion for one’s neighbors, are really all that is needed.

As Mma Ramostwe works to uncover (and help counter) unhappiness in her business partner Grace Makutsi and her husband Phuti Radiphuti (proprietor of the Double Comfort Furniture Store), her deductive skills and careful planning may or may not achieve the exact outcome expected, but cannot help but provide a lovely and uplifting read, – a perfect balm and the indisputable antidote to days filled full of heedless rushing.

I loved this book, and love this series.
Love the immersion into a world where “the best response to hostility was a compliment, an expression of affection, a simple smile. And it always worked – or almost always.”

A world where rudeness is not tolerated, and everyone, including those among the “traditionally-built”, have “the right to stand up straight and speak their mind”, for they “lived in place that recognized all these things as good, and was, as everybody knew, a very good place.”

A great big thank you to @netgalley, the author and the publisher for an ARC of this warm and oh-so-welcome hug of book – all thoughts presented are my own.