The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café

Alexander McCall Smith

Little Brown, 2014 - Botswana - 244 pages

Even the arrival of her baby can't hold Mma Makutsi back from success in the workplace, and so no sooner than she becomes a full partner in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - in spite of Mma Ramotswe's belated claims that she is only 'an assistant full partner' - she also launches a new enterprise of her own: the Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe. Grace Makutsi is a lady with a business plan, but who could predict temperamental chefs, drunken waiters and more? Luckily, help is at hand, from the only person in Gaborone more gently determined than Mma Makutsi ... Mma Ramotswe, of course.

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About the author

Following a distinguished career as a Professor of Medical Law, Alexander McCall Smith turned to writing full-time. He is the author of over eighty books on a wide array of subjects, and his works have been translated into forty-six languages. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café; Volume 15 of No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, Alexander McCall Smith
• Author: Alexander McCall Smith
• Publisher: Little Brown, 2014
• ISBN: 1408704331, 9781408704332
• Length: 244 pages