Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction

This, the second novel in Alexander McCall Smith's -widely acclaimed No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, takes us further into the life of the engaging and sassy Precious Ramotswe, the owner and detective of Botswana's only ladies' detective agency. Among her cases this time are wayward wives and unscrupulous maids. Mma Ramotswe's own impending marriage to the most gentlemanly of men, Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, the promotion of Mma's secretary to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective, and the arrival of new members to the Matekoni family all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales. Tears of the Giraffe was selected as one of The Guardian's top ten 'Fiction paperbacks of the Year, 2000'.