I love Alexander McCall Smith's characters - the Botswana detective Precious Ramotswe, and the Edinburgh philosopher/detective Isabel Dalhousie. These are wonderfully strong, complex, interesting women, and Smith manages to evoke the places in which they live so that they come alive for the reader. I reread the Precious books periodically, and find something new each time, and am quite sure that...
more I love Alexander McCall Smith's characters - the Botswana detective Precious Ramotswe, and the Edinburgh philosopher/detective Isabel Dalhousie. These are wonderfully strong, complex, interesting women, and Smith manages to evoke the places in which they live so that they come alive for the reader. I reread the Precious books periodically, and find something new each time, and am quite sure that I will be rereading these Isabel Dalhousie stories often as well.
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