In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

This is Book 6 in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. I've read the first five, but had started getting bored with them. Now a year later I'm picking up the series again and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Reading these books is like traveling to Africa. Alexander McCall Smith actually paints a vivid picture and you feel as though you can see, hear and smell everything. The characters are painted so vividly I feel as though they are friends of mine, each with a distinctive voice and personality. Picking this up again after a break was like coming home. In this volume Mme Ramotswe lays to rest an upsetting part of her past, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni gets a new employee who proves very helpful and Mme Makutsi finally meets her man.

Rating: 3.5/5