Tears of the Giraffe

Description

In 1999 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency received two Booker Judges' Special Recommendations and was voted one of the ‘International Books of the Year and the Millennium' by the Times Literary Supplement. Tears of the Giraffe 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 are wayward wives, unscrupulous maids and a challenge to resolve a mother's pain for her son, who is long lost on the African plains. Mma Ramotswe's own impending marriage to that most gentlemanly of men, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, the promotion of her secretary to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective and new additions to the Matekoni family, all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales.

Description

Following on from the brilliant The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Tears of the Giraffe charts the further adventures of Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest female private detective. It's going to take all her intuition and eminent sensibility for Precious to crack her hardest case yet: the decade-old disappearance of an American on the edge of the Kalahari. And if that wasn't enough, there are plenty of matters closer to home to concern her: her highly talented secretary, Mma Makutsi, eager to be promoted to detective; the unscrupulous maid of her husband-to-be, the wonderful Mr J. L. B. Matekoni; and the sudden - and unexpected - increase in her family by not one, but two. 'Smart and sassy . . . Precious's progress is charted in passages that have the power to amuse or shock or touch the heart, sometimes all at once' LOS ANGELES TIMES 'A rare pleasure' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A publishing phenomenon' GUARDIAN

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Series Statement

• No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (2)

Other Editions

• Tears of the GiraffePaperbackAbacus2003-08-07
• Tears of the giraffeAnchor Books2002-01-01
• Tears Of The GiraffeLibrary BindingTurtleback Books2002-09-03
• Tears of the GiraffeLittle, Brown Book Group Limited2003-01-01
• Tears of the Giraffe.Time Warner Audio Books,US2003-01-01
• Tears of the GiraffeLittle, Brown Book Group Limited2003-01-01