I reread this story as I’ve picked up the series again and realized I’d read some out of order. I’m waiting for my library hold for the next one. Whether you read these stories or listen to them they are a bit of a balm to the soul. Mma Ramotswe and the gang are such sweet and genuine people with an interest in keeping tradition alive and some of the old ways though they are modern ladies. They work at being polite, honest and fair and these slow African stories just make you feel good. You can feel the heat and dust and imagine sitting in the office of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency which shares a building with Tlokwang Road Speedy Motors. You want to have a cup of bush tea with the ladies and listen to the sound of the garage.
The adventures are cozy mysteries and generally resolved without too much ugliness. Perhaps for some there is not enough happening but for African heat there is just enough.
I love the stories and the lilting sounds of the Botswana accent and use of words and sentence structure. You can hear it in the writing even if you are reading it and not listening to a narrator. I will be reading more of these.

I have to say that my one and only experience with ground hornbills also left me feeling totally creeped out. They look like birds that left the underworld to come walk among us!

Love Mma Ramotswe, such special and heart warming stories.

Another interesting instalment from Mma Romatswe. There's something cosy and cute about these books and I intend to keep reading them between my heavier reads.

I think I have to read one of these books every so often, just connect with a slower, gentler, kinder culture. The mysteries are not gory. The solution to problems are often simple. The world would be better if we'd all try a bit harder to just be nice.