The Right Attitude to Rain: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries)

Wonderful book. 4th in the Isabel Dalhousie series

I just love the title of this book... And Isabel Dalhousie is, as always, exellent company.

I love experiencing McCall Smith's Edinburgh and his characters.

cute!

I've enjoyed all the books I've read by Alexander McCall Smith. I started out with the "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" and branched out from there. Couldn't get into it.

Unlike the previous Isabel Dallhousie series ( Sunday Philosophy Club and Friends, Lovers and Chocolate), this book does not have any mystery pending to be solved. Rather, this book unfolds as a further development of the main character, Isabel Dallhousie, whose insistence of 'moral proximity' seems to have mellowed down. Dallhousie, as I recall from the previous two, ALWAYS butts into other...more

Unlike the previous Isabel Dallhousie series ( Sunday Philosophy Club and Friends, Lovers and Chocolate), this book does not have any mystery pending to be solved. Rather, this book unfolds as a further development of the main character, Isabel Dallhousie, whose insistence of 'moral proximity' seems to have mellowed down. Dallhousie, as I recall from the previous two, ALWAYS butts into other people's business because she thinks she has a moral obligation to these people. That makes her likeable. However, I am rather pleased that she has becoming more human as she struggles through the acknowledgment of human fragility. I am not sure if she is maturing ( as we have to see in the fourth book whether she has really changed or not), but I find her more adorable at the end as the story progresses. All in all, this is another pastoral delight written by McCall Smith. I am very impressed by how the lives of the main characters and the supporting characters mirror each other. They seem unrelated but in fact parallel with each other. Rich in texture, this book is a pleasurable read.   hide

didn't enjoy this one quite as much as the others in the series.

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.   hide

I thoroughly enjoy this series from McCall Smith, who is better known for the "Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency" series. In the third book in this series, Isabel and Jamie's relationship changes and the philosophical questions are as interesting as ever.