Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the novel

The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (1998) Pub. Abacus

There are currently seven more novels in this series with Precious Ramotswe as Botswana’s finest female private detective.

Look up this and other series on the author’s website.

Penguin Graded Readers have an adapted version at A2 level.

The BBC is to broadcast its adaptation early this year.