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Tears of the Giraffe

By: Alexander McCall Smith
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
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Winner of the British Book Awards, Author of the Year, 2004.
Winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award, 2004.

Following on from the brilliant The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Tears of the Giraffe charts the further adventures of Mma Ramotswe, Botswana's only female private detective. It's going to take all her intuition and eminent sensibility for Mma Ramotswe to crack her hardest case yet: the decade-old disappearance of an American on the edge of the Kalahari.

©2000 Alexander McCall Smith; (P)2003 Time Warner AudioBooks Detective Literature & Fiction Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Fiction Africa
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"So elegant and understated is the author's style that the novel seems to transcend age." (Trevor Royle)
"I was enchanted by the character of Precious Ramotswe and the sly humour of Alexander McCall Smith's writing, his deft evocation of a culture." (Anthony Minghella)
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Just sublime! Felt I was there in Botswana. Great narrator gives this fabulous story an added depth of enjoyment.

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Wonderful stories, told in an authentic African voice. McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe is an astute people watcher and uses this to great effect in her job. The supporting characters are also brilliant, Mma Makutsi, her wannabe detective secretary who achieved an unprecedented 97% in her exams, Mr JLB Matekoni (who is always called Mr JLB Matekoni) sympathetic mechanic who has a gift for listening to engines, in love with Mma Ramotswe.
Lovely stuff!!

Superb!!

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Love these these books …so simple but so filled with so much…each one worth listening to in there own right

Wonderful

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I loved this light-hearted story, read so well with fantastic real accents. These brought the story to life. It really made you feel you were in Africa, and it's obvious that the author knows the country and the people very well, an writes with great affection. I will be listening to the next book with a warm heart. You can learn so much about the people from these books despite them being fictional.

Great African story

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delightful as always. Great bed time story for calming the mind before a good sleep.

delightful.

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