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April’s book is “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” by Alexander McCall Smith. As someone who opened her own detective agency at the age of nine I guess this book was always going to resonate with me, though unlike Precious Ramotswe in McCall’s novel, I had to close mine a couple of week’s later having failed to secure any mysteries to solve. I blame it firmly on a lack of life experience and the fact that my parents wouldn’t let me roam beyond the grounds of the house!

Having said that, the lovely Precious is also filled with self-doubt as she initially sets up her agency in Botswana using money inherited from her father. Who will want a lady detective, she wonders? What does she know about solving cases? Yet solve them she does in her own gentle but determined fashion.

It is a lovely humour-filled read, exploring the lives of all the different characters who stop by the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency. Published in 1998, this is the first of a series of nineteen novels so obviously the agency does considerably better than mine!