by Alexander McCall Smith, 2008
Not the best Ladies Detective book. Mma Makutsi & Phuti Radiphuti buy a bed – velvet heart headboard. It doesn’t fit into Mma Makutsi’s house when they delivered it the next day, so she has them leave it outside. The rainy season starts and ruins it. She buys a cheap replacement – lies to Phuti and then tells the truth eventually.
Mma Ramotswe has to find the family of a lady. She does through Mma Potokwane – the orphan director – but ends up being incorrect but that’s okay because they end up glad they are not related (brother & sister but now can be husband/wife).
Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni listens to a doctor who tells him his daughter Motholeli could walk again. He takes her to a clinic in Johannesburg, spends 25,000 (Mma Ramotswe finds out how much, and rather than let him mortgage the garage, she secretly sells about 6 of her prize cattle), but alas, it doesn’t work and Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni cries. Motholeli is fine and happy though.
Lastly, Mma Ramotswe is getting anonymous threatening letters at the garage. Mr. Polopetsi delivers one to her so she suspects him. Charlie sees who drops them off and tells Mma Ramotswe it’s a woman. It ends up being Violet Sephotho, the glamour girl in Mma Makutsi’s secretarial class.
Last Paragraph: “But one had to be careful, Mma Ramotswe herself: one should not ask for too many things in this life, especially when one already had so much.” (that is what I wrote, but I don’t think that is correct.)