The “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” series has been going strong since the first release in 1998. Its popular and prolific author, Alexander McCall Smith, is back with another new addition to the series that made him a household name. The 26th book, “In the Time of Five Pumpkins,” is out—just in time for pumpkin season.
Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi are the unlikely ladies who head the series. With Ramotswe’s common-sense logic and Makutsi’s more assertive line of thinking, the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency has become Botswana’s go-to for help in solving tough cases.
