Whenever I want to read something just for fun, I reach for one of the books in Alexander McCall Smith’s The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.
I just finished “Blue Shoes and Happiness” and, as always, it didn’t disappoint.
All of the recurring characters in Smith’s detective-lite series are wonderful, especially the heroine, Precious Ramotswe, a “traditonally-built” woman who runs Botswana’s only ladies’ detective agency. The cases she and her sidekick, Grace Makutsi, solve are more about human foibles than high crimes and misdemeanors, but that’s what makes these books such fun. And I’ve learned a lot about Botswana and its people along the way.
Slip into these “Blue Shoes” and the happiness is guaranteed.
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