

An edition of The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (2013)
By Alexander McCall Smith
Publish Date
2013
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Language
eng
Pages
245
Description:
"The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series is moving to the fall! In the latest book in the beloved best-selling series of mysteries set in Botswana, Mma Ramotswe is asked to help the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, who is having trouble with her business. The salon has suffered some unfortunate events, including face cream that burns the skin. Could someone be trying to put the salon out of business? Meanwhile, on the home front, Mma Makutsi is going to have a baby. But in Botswana--a land where family has always been held above all else but which is on the crossroads between old and new--this may be cause for as much controversy as celebration"-- "In the latest book in the beloved best-selling series of mysteries set in Botswana, Mma Ramotswe is asked to help the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, who is having trouble with her business. The salon has suffered some unfortunate events, including face cream that burns the skin. Could someone be trying to put the salon out of business? Meanwhile, on the home front, Mma Makutsi is going to have a baby. But in Botswana--a land where family has always been held above all else but which is on the crossroads between old and new--this may be cause for as much controversy as celebration"--
subjects: Fiction, General, Women private investigators, No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization), Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Ramotswe, precious (fictitious character), fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Botswana, fiction, Social life and customs, Families, Contemporary Women, Mystery & Detective, Humorous, Pregnant women, Women Sleuths, Precious Ramotswe (Fictitious character), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION / Contemporary Women, FICTION / Humorous, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2013-11-24, New York Times bestseller, Large type books, Family life, Entrepreneurship, Ranching, Manners and customs, Black Women
People: Precious Ramotswe (Fictitious character)
Places: Botswana