by Alexander McCall Smith, 11th #1 Ladies Detective Series, 2010
Phuti Radiphuti has his leg crushed by one of his delivery men who backed his truck into him. He has to have the lower part amputated. His Aunty won’t let Mma Makutsi visit in the hospital but Mma Ramotswe gets that changed and he heals up very fast and is released. His Aunty takes him to her house and again won’t let Grace visit. In the end, Mma Potokwane finds out and roars her way to Aunty’s home with Mma Makutsi and Mma Ramotswe and takes Phuti to the Orphanage happily where Mma Makutsi can see him every night.
Violet Sephotho deceives a young man, Mr. Kereleng, into buying a house and putting it in her name. Then, refusing to marry him, he comes to Mma Ramotswe for help. She goes to her attorney friend who ends up being the one who did the original deed. He had never filed it and had put the wrong address on it. So Mma Ramotswe & Mma Makutsi go to her house saying a new deed will need to be signed and Violet knows Mr. Kereleng won’t sign it and goes berserk, attacking Mma Makutsi.
Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi go north to Maun to safari camps looking for the guide of a Mrs. Grant who left him $3,000 in her will – not knowing the name of the camp except it’s an animal or a bird. They go to Eagle Island Camp first and think they found the guide until he shows them a picture of Mrs. Grant and it’s not the same woman. Mma Ramotswe has another guide, Mighty, take her to another camp, the Lion’s Tail, and finds the real guide – who happens to be marrying the other guide’s sister, and will end up giving him most of the 3000 as a bridal prize.
Pretty good book – not quite as good as Tea Time for the Traditionally Built.