I'm completely in love with the audiobooks of this series. The prose style is very simple and the POV tends to chop and change which can be irritating to read, but Adjoa Andoh bring the prose and the characters to full, colourful life. I honestly believe these novels are meant to be heard, not read.

Though presented as a novel, The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency is more like a collection of short stories, telling the tales of the first few cases Mme Ramotswe has to solve in her newly established detective agency. As such, each story evokes different emotions. The woman with the cheating husband is hilarious, the story of Mme Ramotswe's father's life is heartbreaking, and the cases of the doctor and the missing boy are the most like real mystery stories. All of it is linked together by a simple, heartwarming central relationship and the author's love for the setting of Botswana. ( )

Very funny and humane. Botswana is on the literary map. Watch out for the movie! ( )