Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency) [Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

This is a superior piece of detective fiction, written in simple, direct but effective prose. (Edinburgh REVIEW )

Where 'The No. 1 Ladies (Detective Agency’ )

was brilliant, 'Tears of the Giraffe', the second in the series is sublime. (John Leland, Femaledetective.com )

I was enchanted by the character of Precious Ramotswe and the sly humour of Alexander McCall Smith's writing, his deft evocation of a culture (- Anthony Minghella ** 'So elegant and understated is the author's style that the novel seems to transcend age’ ) --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Where 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' was brilliant, 'Tears of the Giraffe', the second in the series is sublime. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The various cases are solved, in a highly individual way that would put Holmes himself to shame. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Adjoa Andoh is a TV, theatre and radio actor whose credits include Casualty and Eastenders. She has worked extensively for Radio 4 and the BBC World Service and has been a member of the RSC. She is the reader for all five Mma Ramotswe audiobooks. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe - the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE, McCall Smith's second audiobook, takes us further into this world as we follow Mama Ramotswe into more daring situations ... Among her cases this time are wayward wives, unscrupulous maids, and the challenge to resolve a mother's pain for her son who is long lost on the African plains. Indeed, Mma Ramotswe's own impending marriage to the most gentlemanly of men, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, the promotion of Mma's secretary to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective, and the arrival of new members to the Matekoni family, all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales. * TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE was selected as one of the GUARDIAN's top ten 'Fiction Paperbacks of the Year, 2000 --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Since its first publication in 1998 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' has received two Booker Judges' Special Recommendations and was voted one of the 'International Books of the Year and the Millennium' by the Times Literary Supplement.

Both 'No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency' and its sequel, 'Tears of the Giraffe', have been translated and published in German, and the film rights to both books have been sold. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The one where Precious gets a new family Mma Ramotswe of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency is hoping to set up home with Mr J. L. B. Maketoni but must first deal with his scheming, misbehaving maid, while her secretary Mma Makutsi is clamouring for a promotion. She also has to confront the most difficult case of her career so far: that of an American who went missing ten years ago, and about whom all leads have long since dried up. Then there are not one, but two sudden additions to Mma's family . . . 'Soothing, full of hope' Sunday Telegraph 'Delightful' Evening Standard Discover the world of Alexander McCall Smith and his other books at alexandermccallsmith.co.uk [Facebook logo] --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Alexander McCall Smith is a Professor of Medical Law as well as the author of over 50 books from FORENSIC ASPECTS OF SLEEP to THE CRIMINAL LAW OF BOTSWANA, THE PERFECT HAMBURGER (for children) to PORTUGUESE IRREGULAR VERBS (short stories). --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, found it difficult to believe that Mma Ramotswe, the accomplished founder of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, had agreed to marry him. It was at the second time of asking; the first posing of the question, which had required immense courage on his part, had brought forth a refusal - gentle and regretful - but a refusal nonetheless. After that, he assumed that Mma Ramotswe would never remarry; that her brief and disastrous marriage to Note Mokoti, trumpeter and jazz aficionado, had persuaded her that marriage nothing but a recipe for sorrow and suffering. After all, she was an independent-minded woman, with a business to run, and a comfortable house of her own in Zebra Drive. Why, he wondered, should a woman like that take on a man, when a man could prove to be difficult to manage once vows were exchanged and he had settled himself in her house? No if he were in Mma Ramotswe's shoes, then he might well decline an offer of marriage, even from somebody as eminently reasonable and respectable as himself.

But then on that noumenal evening, sitting with him on her veranda after he had spent the afternoon fixing her tiny white van, she had said yes. And she had given this answer in such a simple, unambiguously kind way, that he had been confirmed in his belief that she was one of the very best women in Botswana. That evening, when he returned home to his house near the old Defence Force Club, he had reflected on the enormity of his good fortune. Here he was, in his mid-forties, a man who had until that point been unable to find a suitable wife, now blessed with the hand of the one woman whom he admired more than any other. Such remarkable good fortune was almost inconceivable, and he wondered whether he would suddenly wake up from the delicious dream into which he seemed to have wandered.

Yet it was true. The next morning, when he turned on his bedside radio to hear the familiar sound of cattle bells with which Radio Botswana prefaced its morning broadcast, he realised that it had indeed happened and that unless she had changed her mind overnight, he was a man engaged to be married. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.