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In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Mma Ramotswe is tempted to put the brakes on a business venture before it even gets rolling. Mr. J.L.B.

It is 1938 and the final days of the British Empire.

A full-cast BBC Radio Scotland comedy dramatisation originally broadcast Oct. 1, 2008.

In contemporary Botswana, sleuth Precious Ramotswe decides to go against tradition and start her own business--a detective agency. Soon she is in the thick of several perplexing cases.

Kay Scarpetta's work as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner has come to an end.

Precious Ramotswe is worried about her depressed fiance, Mr J. L. B. Matekoni and a puzzling poisoning case. Her assistant Mma Makutsi proves her worth.

Mma Ramotswe has become engaged to Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, the garage owner, but his rude and exploitative maid has other ideas, and tries to frame her for a serious offense.

The newest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series. Bertie's respite from his overbearing mother, Irene, is over.

Precious Ramotswe learns valuable lessons about first impressions and forgiveness in this latest installment of the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

The latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series.

There is the surveyor who dreams of a membership in Muirfield golf club. There is the pushy Stockbridge mother. There is the intellectual lady who sees herself as part of a much larger world.

In this latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's ever-delightful and perennially best-selling series, amateur sleuth and philosopher Isabel Dalhousie is called upon to help when a matchm

Emma Woodhouse's widowed father is an anxious man, obsessed with nutrition and the latest vitamins.

The delightful seventeenth installment of the ever-popular, perennially best-selling No.

When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the perfect escape from stressful city life.