Firstly, I have to say that I have chosen this book,  THE Nº1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY , because I’m interested in mystery and detective novels. In this book everything happens in a ladies detective agency in Garbone, the capital of Botswana, in the middele of South Africa.

She, Mme. Ramotswe, is an agency boss, the best and best known detective in Botswana. Thanks to her father’s inheritance, who had worked long years in the mines in Mochudi, a little mining town, she could buy a small and simple office well-located in the center of the city and a white van, where the novel is set.

Secondly, I won’t make a review of each chapter of the book, since each one is a different case that alternates with her every day’s life, family, her past, present and childhood memories when she lost her mother who was run over by a train when Mne. Ramotswe was a baby. Maybe if she hadn’t lost her mother when she was a few old her life might have been different. However, Mme. Raotswe, her secretary and close friends invistigate cases together, for example: common cases like marital infidelities, robberies, fraud, scams, disppearances, crimes, etc. which she resolves satisfactory with common sence, wit and intuition, this common sence that in most cases women have, haven’t we?.

Finally, the impression I got from the novel is my admiration for Mme. Ramotswe effort and courage to move away from her husband who doesn’t love her for that reason she starts a new life with new dreams to set up a company like THE Nº1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY in a country dominated by men where only men have the space to be able to work as detectives.

RAMONA CREUS