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Nov 12, 2011Liber_vermis rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
This book is the twelfth in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series and it shows. About one-third of the content is idle wandering from the thin thread of the main events. This waste should have been edited out. There is little new character development. One can imagine the themes are familiar from BBC soap operas and put into an African context simply to add an exotic element. There are many serious and unique issues in contemporary Africa that Smith could have in his books but he seems to avoid them. Why do I keep reading these saccharine books?