The book is set in Botswana and it is about a story of an independent woman that when her father died, sold the cattle that she inherited and decided to buy a house and set up the only ladies’ detective agency in the country. The novel relates the cases that she has to solve.

The main character is Mma Ramotswe, a woman proud of being African, capable to run successfully a business which is not common, especially for a woman.

It is not a typical detective novel, with complicated and dangerous cases. Actually, mostly of Mma Ramotswe’s cases are about things that happen every day and that she solves with simplicity thanks to her intuition and her knowledge about people’s behaviour.

It is a book easy to read. The vocabulary is not difficult and it is like a set of short stories, although the entire novel follows the same plot.

I liked this book because the author conveys his feelings for a country that he describes through Mma Ramotswe’s adventures. He describes the landscape and its people. In fact, he shows a way of thinking, or understand of life and the world in general, and expresses his desire that Africa does not change, questioning as well the life that we have in these countries that we call developed.

Cèlia Farràs