The Sunday Philosophy Club: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (Isabel Dalhousie Novels) [Hardcover]

Vintage McCall Smith, written with a characteristic twinkle in his eye and the graceful clarity of an aesthetically attuned lawyer. (GLASGOW HERALD )

The No. 2 Lady Detective... anyone who loves Precious cannot fail to be charmed (MAIL ON SUNDAY )

Isabel Dalhousie's charm is undeniable (SUNDAY TIMES )

The suspense last till the end; and McCall Smith has the gift of evoking an entire social atmosphere in very few and simple words. (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )

‘Sets up Isabel Dalhousie as Edinburgh’s latest, and most engaging investigator.’ The Herald

‘Cannot fail to be charmed.’

‘Terrific start to a new series. Don’t miss it!’

* A charming and sophisticated new series from the Author of the Year from the British Book Awards, BA and Waterstone's Conferences, introducing a brilliant new female 'detective', Isabel Dalhousie.

'Isabel Dalhousie's charm is undeniable'

Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. She edits the Review of Applied Ethics - addressing such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationships' - & she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh. Behind the city's Georgian facades its moral compasses are spinning with greed, dishonesty & murderous intent. Instinct tells Isabel that the young man who tumbled to his death in front of her eyes at a concertl didn't fall. He was pushed. The Sunday Philosophy Club marks new territory - but familiar moral ground - from the author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. With Isabel Dalhousie Alexander Mccall Smith introduces a new & pneumatic female sleuth to tackle murder, mayhem - & the mysteries of life. As her hero WH Auden maintained, classic detective fiction stems from a desire for an uncorrupted Eden which the detective, as an agent of God, can return to us. But then Isabel, being a philosopher, has a thing or two to say about God as well. Visit the author's website which can be found at www.mccallsmith.com

McCall Smith is is a Professor of Medical Law as well as an author who has written over 50 books on a wide range of subjects: from Forensic Aspects of Sleep to The Criminal Law of Botswana, The Perfect Hamburger(children's fiction) to Portuguese Irregular Verbs (short stories).