Tears of the giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #2)

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.