Baba's Reviews > Tears of the Giraffe

Not sure what McCall Smith's series did to pee me off so much back when I first read it in 2004, but I gave it and its subsequent volumes a measly Two Stars, but that's what I did. Looking back on this series I found it enlightening and interesting getting into the nitty gritty of life in a small-town Botswana; the life, the trials and the tribulations of a woman trying to set up and run her own detective agency. This instalment sees the main protagonist PI Precious Ramotswe investigating a missing American and juggling that with having unforeseen trouble at home!

The only thing I can think of is that the background was pretty good but the actual detective cases lacked imagination? 5 out of 12.

2004 read