false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255644765m/6988580.jpg 6163416 7 <b>The sensational sixth installment in the best-selling chronicles of the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie. <br></b><br>Isabel’s son, Charlie, is now of an age—eighteen months—to have a social life, and so off they go to a birthday party, where, much to Isabel’s surprise, she finds Minty Auchterlonie, the high-flying financier she first encountered in <i>The Sunday Philosophy Club</i>. Minty had seemed to Isabel a woman of ruthless ambition, but the question of her integrity had never truly been answered. Now, when Minty takes Isabel into her confidence about the complicated troubles at the investment bank she heads, Isabel finds herself going another round: Is Minty to be trusted? Or is she the perpetrator of an enormous financial fraud? <br><br>Not that this is the only dilemma facing Isabel: she also crosses swords again with her nemesis Professor Dove, in an argument over plagiarism. Her niece, Cat, of course, has a new, problematic man (a stunt man!) in her life. And Jamie—doting father of Charlie—is still pressing Isabel to solve <i>his </i>dilemma: getting her to marry him. <br><br>As always, there is no end to the delight in accompanying Isabel as she makes her way toward the heart of every problem: philosophizing, sleuthing, and downright snooping, in her inimitable—and inimitably charming—fashion. 6342685 book 22 9 2009 The Lost Art of Gratitude (Isabel Dalhousie, #6) total:230|5:34|4:119|3:63|2:11|1:3| 230 860 396 76 4 0 false false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 20:40:55 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 20:41:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 10:12:42 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 10:24:56 -0700 2009 He is quite good. I jumped in with the
sixth book in a series on a female philosopher in Edinburgh (home of Smith). Isobel is a thoughtful, kind woman and mother of an 18-month-old son.
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The New York Times said it best. Yes, Alexander McCall Smith's The Lost Art of Gratitude is a mystery, but it's a mystery of the gentlest variety: no blood or chilling villains, just troublesome situations brought on by ou...more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 17:07:08 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 17:10:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 06 10:53:27 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 11:02:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 23:00:50 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 23:10:07 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 19:15:55 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 18:37:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 05:33:56 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 07:23:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 09:51:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 09:55:49 -0700 2009
This is the same author as the #1 Ladies Detective Agency books. I didn't know that till the end.

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