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Let's try out this popular series. It certainly encompasses Scottish and African cultures (the author's Scotland residence today and Africa, his birthplace and series' setting). These starting pages bring to mind Pune, India's Manjiri Prabhu, who authored a zodiac mystery duology. She comprised each novel's arc of small mystery cases, instead of the usual one stretched over a whole book. A very original approach.
— Feb 09, 2017 08:41AM
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I fall asleep before finishing as far into books as I'd like to but I am nearly done this introductory novel to Alexander McCall Smith's most well-known series. He has many others, the creative bloke! I have début novels from several and will try them later. This is far off the mystery path I expected but we love Precious and her dearest people. In my challenges: this Is for CELTIC COASTS and MY KIND OF MYSTERY!
— Feb 13, 2017 10:35AM
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Having argued "a cozy mystery" is not the convoluted mix of traits people think and that it is simply a lighter version of "a standard adult mystery" (Diet 7UP versus 7UP); someone asked where this book should go. I had not read it until now. It did look like it would be funny and whacky but its placement is no puzzle! Any book that discusses abuse and mourning a lost pregnancy is not light fare. Standard adult.
— Feb 11, 2017 08:54AM
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There are a few very unpleasant sections. They describe what happened to Precious's Mom and from whence the three important characters came: herself, her Dad, and her Dad's cousin who helped raise her. It feels like Alexander McCall Smith was figuring out his novel's shape, writing more background information than short mystery cases. The others might be very different. This volume of course lays out the series.
— Feb 10, 2017 10:59AM
