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Published on November 26, 2007

Reading: ‘The Good Husband of Zebra Drive’ by Alexander McCall Smith

“This is the first in a series of eight books set in Botswana entitled “The Number 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency”. They describe the first and only ladies’ detective agency in the southern African country. Against the background of the development of Botswana from its idyllic, rural past to the challenges of the modern nationstate, the books sensitively and humorously delve into a whole series of public and private misdeeds, from the mundane to the significant, and the intricate patterns of behaviour between the agency’s stolid founder, her fiance husband and the untrainable staff of his auto repair shop next door, and the agency’s ambitious secretary (and her climb to assistant detective status). Perfect aeroplane reading!”