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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.

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.

Years have passed since Amy Masters escaped the brutal Texas plains to become a schoolteacher in Oregon.

Loretta Simpson lost her parents to a daring Comanche raid seven years ago--and now she lives as a mute with her extended family.

Torn between the white and Comanche worlds of her parents, Indigo Wolf has grown up estranged from the townspeople of Wolf's Landing, Orgeon.

Former gunslinger Race Spencer's solitary life on the range is interrupted by the beautiful Rebecca Morgan, whom he rescues from outlaws and whose gratitude is compromised by fear of him.

Akimbo goes to the rescue of a zoologist who is injured on his father's game preserve.

On the African game preserve where his father works, Akimbo devises a dangerous plan to capture a ring of elephant poachers.

On a trip to the snake park with his Uncle Peter, Akimbo has an adventure involving a deadly green mamba snake.

Von Igelfeld is quite pleased with his role as a visiting scholar at Cambridge, even if his English colleagues can be difficult to comprehend.

After a patient dies accidentally, an impeccably credentialed doctor is accused of fraudulent involvement with a new drug.

When her niece Cat travels to a wedding in Italy, Isabel agrees to fill in at Cat's delicatessen.

McCall Smith delivers a collection of stories about dating, with emotions running from the thrill of finding happiness to the humiliation and loneliness of rejection.

When the ever ethical Isabel Dalhousie bumps into Minty Auchterlonie for the first time in years, she is skeptical (again) of Minty's integrity.