Following on from the brilliant The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Tears of the Giraffe charts the further adventures of Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest female private detective. It's going to take all her intuition and eminent sensibility for Precious to crack her hardest case yet: the decade-old disappearance of an American on the edge of the Kalahari. And if that wasn't enough, there are plenty of matters closer to home to concern her: her highly talented secretary, Mma Makutsi, eager to be promoted to detective; the unscrupulous maid of her husband-to-be, the wonderful Mr J. L. B. Matekoni; and the sudden - and unexpected - increase in her family by not one, but two. 'Smart and sassy . . . Precious's progress is charted in passages that have the power to amuse or shock or touch the heart, sometimes all at once' LOS ANGELES TIMES 'A rare pleasure' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A publishing phenomenon' GUARDIAN