It’s not hard to sense where the heart of the story is located, when the moment Mma Ramotswe realizes she’s about to become the mother of two orphaned children proves more suspenseful than her interview with the sociopath responsible for the American boy’s death. These storylines unspool with lyrical grace, gentle humor, and a touch of spooky suspense. And a jealous housemaid is hatching an evil plot against Mma Ramotswe. Her secretary, newly promoted to assistant private detective, has solved her first case, but in so doing, she has found herself in an ethical dilemma.
Her family is about to grow in an unexpected way, thanks to her fiance’s soft heart toward orphans. While Mma Ramotswe sniffs the cold trail of the no doubt long-dead youth, there are plenty of other things to occupy her mind. Only now does the boy’s mother learn what a native Botswana woman can do with a high school education, a woman’s intuition, and a few months’ experience as a self-taught investigator. Neither the police, nor an expert tracker, nor the American embassy could help. Then, suddenly, he vanished, and for ten years, not a trace of him could be found. This time it’s a 20-year-old American boy whose parents left him behind when they returned home from diplomatic duty in Botswana because he had such a “heart for Africa” that he didn’t want to leave.įor a couple years, the parents heard regularly from their son as he worked on an experimental farm. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Mma Ramotswe again wrestles with the case of a missing son whose trail has gone cold.
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