Reciprocating

Alexander McCall Smith’s Precious and Grace absorbs us in the non-rushed life of two lady detectives in Gaborone. Three mysteries move cheerfully towards their best outcomes. An abandoned dog finds a home in an orphanage. Haunted for decades by a painful childhood memory, a woman relinquishes its hold. A fraudster picking on a naïve chemist finds he can only go so far. As with others in the series, traditionally built friends talk over tea and fat cakes, car souls receive due care, and the little white van trudges under the big Botswana sky, always looking for a hint of rain.