At a remote cattle post south of Gaborone two cows have been killed, and Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s No. 1 Lady Detective, is hired by fearful client, himself a suspect. She and secretary Grace Makutsi, wooed by Phuti Radiphuti, both see her old white van. Mr J.L.B. Matekoni’s apprentice runs away under pressure to wed. Violet Sephotho runs for the Botswana Parliament. ( )

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Delightful...as always. ( )

I have never had a car I loved as much as Mma Ramotswe loves the tiny white van. But I have had objects that were dear to me and that I looked out for years after they were gone. I liked Charlie's plotline through this installment.
I thought this was the end of the series, a round dozen books. But I see now that there are more. Which is good because there is still more February to get through. ( )

The plot is secondary for this series of books, after all, it is almost the same. What I like is Ramotswe's musings about life, which is all so true. And in this book, Ramotswe was worrying about 3 things - Charlie and his troubles with his ex-girlfriend and her new-born twins, handling Mpho's confession of his crime and what to tell her client, and getting back her old van. In the end, it turned out that those twins aren't Charlie's; Ramotswe didn't have to tell her client about Mpho's confession because he turned up with a new lead (and one thing led to another); and Charlie told Matekoni about Ramotswe's desire to get her old van back, leading to Matekoni buying back the van for her. Though fictional, it quite mirrors life - we shouldn't worry so much about things, sometimes they resolve on their own. One more thing I learned from Ramotswe - if you have requests to ask of others, always say positive things about them. Or ask direct, depending on the situation. ( )