Mma Makutsi asserts there's no difference in the jobs male and female nurses do, and Mma Ramotswe interjects: "Sometimes they have special jobs to do, Mma Makutsi. All of the regular Botswana crew is back in this story focused on the growing office tension between Precious and Grace.

This then morphs into a discussion of small and big men; of a man with very short muscular legs like tree trunks; of termites felling trees; etc. Ladies' Detective Agency series, the Isabel Dalhousie Series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, and the 44 Scotland Street series. After his first- ever visit to the dentist, Charlie is dismayed to learn what will be needed to keep his teeth from falling out. Precious and Grace come up with a scheme that would temporarily move the woman and her unruly son into Grace and Phuti's home. I feel like I just was in Botswana visiting with my friend, Mma Ramose and all her family and friends.

Acts of unkindness by others do not make us unkind – they simply make us all the more determined to be kind ourselves. Grace has never been my favorite character and her behavior at the beginning of the book was ridiculous. This is a different kind of cozy mystery where there isn’t necessarily a dead body, but there is plenty of detecting. As is always the case, the world over, there’s a reason for a behaviour…and Precious graciously waits and finds it out. Then, after the publication of his highly successful 'No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency' series, which has sold over twenty million copies, he devoted his time to the writing of fiction and has seen his various series of books translated into over forty-six languages and become bestsellers through the world.

There's a charming kind of wit peeping through in various scenes and a general sense that almost everyone means well. Of course, Grace cannot accept or credit Charlie's unorthodox methods of solving the case, now concluded with a happy ending.B. Matekoni, during the special half-hour when the sun is setting and the spouses are relaxing on their verandah. Tea had remarkable calming properties when administered mid-crisis, and that, perhaps, was what was needed now. Mma Ramotswe has a couple of tricky problems to deal with; Mma Makutsi is concerned about a rival chair company who are undercutting her husband's business, and using arch rival Violet Sepotho in their advertising campaign; meanwhile, one of her old friends is having trouble with her son and the new man in her life. I read about a furniture company that puts profit before quality and attempts to undercut Grace’s husband (Phuti) and drive him towards bankruptcy.