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The Miracle at Speedy Motors

by Alexander McCall Smith

The Miracle at Speedy Motors

by Alexander McCall Smith

Reviewed June 2, 2008.
Pantheon Books, New York, 2008. 214 pages.
Starred Review.
Sonderbooks Stand-out 2009: #3 Fiction

I love the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency! This is now the ninth book in the series. I do recommend starting at the beginning. You will grow to know and love these characters, adding to the charm of the books. You will understand exactly why Mma Makutsi's uncle asks a bride price of precisely 97 cows.

I dearly wish I could sit down to a cup of red bush tea with Precious Ramotswe. (I would never admit that I like black tea better!) She is a woman of wisdom, peace, and compassion.

Reading this book is the next best thing.

Mma Ramotswe was right: evil repaid with retribution, with punishment, had achieved half its goal; evil repaid with kindness was shown to be what it really was, a small, petty thing, not something frightening at all, but something pitiable, a paltry affair.