Synopsis
Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationships' - and 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 and murderous intent. Instinct tells Isabel that the young man who tumbled to his death in front of her eyes at a concert in the Usher Hall didn't fall. He was pushed. With Isabel Dalhousie Alexander McCall Smith introduces a new and pneumatic female sleuth to tackle murder, mayhem - and 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.

The main characters in many books by Alexander McCall Smith are persons I would like to meet in real life. This even slower than the Botswana books but isn't Slow Life rather appreciated nowadays? This is a cozy detective novel at its coziest and with philosophical discussions as well.
This book is unsuitable for tose who like fast action and blood in their books but this book is most suitable for me. I like it.

This is my # 15 (100) in
"REDUCE MOUNT TBR 2011" Challenge arranged by DoveiLibri.

I asked this at our forum and the book arrived today. Thank you Annelis!

Finally got to read this! I started it a few times, but now I decided to read it. I didn't like this as much as I like Mma Ramotswe books. It was nice, but I don't think I will read more these Isabel Dalhousie books. It was a bit too slow for me, although I did find the characters interesting and philosophical and ethical thoughts were good.

Sent the book today, I hope the new reader will enjoy this :)

Thank you! :) I'm pretty sure I will :)

So cozy :) I like the warmth McCall Smith is able to write into the characters. I didn't mind the slowness of the story. As someone quite well put it, McCall Smith's book are like book candy. How true <3

Happy reading!