This was funny and touching and beautiful. I wanted to meet these wonderful people with whom I felt I had experienced life in Botswana; I wanted to drink some redbush tea on the verandah, and to drive out into the wonderful empty expanses of Africa. The crimes are minor and Precious Ramotswe is no cerebral detective but she knows how to enjoy life - a really enchanting book.
She stopped. It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin.