The case that preoccupies her most, however, is that of a missing boy who, she fears, is connected to the discovery of a human bone in the glove compartment of a van being serviced by her friend, Mr. The narrative then follows Mma Ramotswe through her investigation and resolution of several cases - a missing husband, the suspicious employee of an old friend, an over-protective father concerned about the behavior of his daughter, a stolen car, and a pair of fraudulent twin doctors. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, and hired the efficient Mma Grace Makutsi, recently graduated from secretarial college, to work as her assistant and receptionist. Narration also describes how, after the sudden departure of her husband and the death of her father, Mma Ramotswe bought herself a house, started The No.
The narrative then recounts Mma Ramotswe's past in greater detail - her father's youth and young adulthood working in the mines, the death of her mother, the running of the household by a cousin of her father's, and her marriage to a man who both got her pregnant and abused her. As the narrative explores the variety of circumstances that enabled her to start her agency and the agency's first cases, it also explores themes relating to the independence of women, African pride, and relationships between parents and children.Īfter summarizing how Mma Ramotswe inherited from her father both the means and the will to make an independent living, and how she used both to start the only detective agency in Botswana run by women, the narrative summarizes her first successful case - how she uncovered the true identity of a man posing as a client's father. This gently paced mystery novel, set in the African country of Botswana, has as its central character the self-sufficient, wise, and compassionate Precious Ramotswe.
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