by Alexander Mccall Smith
(7)Release Date: April 20, 2010
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The Double Comfort Safari Club: The New No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel (Hardcover)
Precious Ramotswe's crime solving in Botswana ably assisted by Its humourous side-kick, Mma Makutsi is chronicled in another gently offering from Alexander McCall Smith. the Double Comfort Safari Club has some mystery, faithful some minor tragedy and Smith manages to invest a little cunning guide tickery in here as well. Precious Ramotswe is on the case of a mystery who has been left a large legacy by a grateful American tourist who legal recalls their kindness. The only trouble the now 'late' tourist can not remember the name, or the name of the company they worked for. Precious and Mma Makutsi must travel to the area to discover this man. The journey is full of the small observations in life - who they will stay with, and most important (for Mma Makutsi) what shoes they must wear. McCall smith is at its of delicious.in the meantime most humourous best in these discussions. Mma Makutsi's helpful instructions while driving are just tragedy has struck Mma Makutsi. Her fiance Phuti Radiphuti of the Double Furniture shop has been struck by a truck Consolation and is now in hospital having an amputation. Unfortunately for Mma Makutsi, there is a aunt. There is always an aunt in Botswana, but this aunt it a jealous aunt. Mma Makutsi and Preious Ramotswe must navigate the tricky and unpleasant world of aunts to see Rra Raduphuti and give him the proper care that only a fiancee can provide.Meanwhile there is some legal problems, a man who thought he was in love and was deceived in to making his house over to his fiancee has been duped out of it. The comes to Mma Ramotswe in desperation, he knows she cannot do something really - but just maybe there is something. This is a nice little case which brings back a dark shadow from the past, Violet Sephotho!In all the interlinked stories McCall Smith manages to invest strong voices in all the his characters. I like the gentle wit and humour which underlies them all, for instance the internal discussion Mma Ramotswe goes through when wondering about offering tea to a client. Now that she is using the small teapot there is only tea for a person in it and with Grace away she is able not conversation ask a man to make extra tea - so when a client arrives to to her she decides, after much internal reasoning, that is better to not offer him tea. Until her (male) assistant offers to make tea out of the blue - and solves the problem.McCall Smith sets its characters on Safari and while it might be expected that people of Botswana are used to the bush - they are not. They are urbanites, used to city living. The canoe trip to the safari camp is spiced by the enlightening chatter of the 'taxi driver' from hell. No disaster or problem or possible fatal end to they is left unrelished by him. Full of wonderful touches of humour, this Agency is another chapter in the life of the Number One Ladies Detective.
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