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title: "The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series)"
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# The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series)

**Brand:** alexander mccall smith
**Price:** € 20.33
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- **What is this?** The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series) by alexander mccall smith
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The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Pledging allegiance to Africa
  

*by N***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2014*

I have spent a portion of my week with my fictional friends in Botswana in the newest installment of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon by Alexander McCall Smith, and, as usual, it was a sweet escape. Mma Ramotswe is the first woman detective in Botswana and she owns the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. She shares a building with the Tlokweng Road auto mechanic shop owned by her very nice husband, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni (titles or honorifics are important in Botswana, a very civil nation). They have taken in two orphaned children who are now sort of in their tween ages.We encounter Mma Ramotswe without her associate detective Mma Makutsi who is very pregnant and very happily married to Phuti Radiphuti. Precious (Mma Ramotswe) is having doubts about how she will run her agency without Mma Makutsi (Grace). Precious is missing her sometimes pesky associate and business is slow which gives her too much time to think.Just before Grace gives birth to a wonderful baby boy (Itumelang Clovis Radiphuti), before Mma Ramotswe has a chance to look for a temporary replacement, a new client, an unusually tall woman lawyer, Mma Sheba Kutso, ends the case drought and hires the ladies to look into an inheritance matter. She thinks a young man who is supposed to inherit a farm is not who he says he is. She wants Precious to see what she can detect?Then, on her way to look for a baby gift, Mma Ramotswe is offered a free beauty treatment by Mma Soleti, the proprietor of a new shop in the mall, a woman who she has seen before. The shop is called The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon. After the free facial, Mma Soleti reveals that she has been the victim of some old Botswana magic, a bird feather that signifies bad luck or death has been delivered to her. Someone wants to run her out of business. Will Mma Ramotswe try to find out who her enemy is? Mma Soleti took someone’s husband away – a husband who seemed oh so happy to leave his wife, and she thinks this woman may be at the bottom of this.These are the kinds of cases the ladies often solve and, although some of their cases have been dangerous, these two cases, each revealing dark places in the human psyche, do not threaten the ladies’ happiness. They are happy because Mma Makutsi does not want to stay home all day with the baby. She can bring him to the office with her for part of the day, and have a sitter for part of the day.So many relationships reach happy new plateaus in this particular little episode in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series that it is an even sweeter and finer story than usual (and I am worried that it might be the last). These ladies are obviously not detectives in the usual noir mold we find used for famous detectives, but Mma Ramotswe has a true understanding of human nature and she does have a knack for solving human problems, especially when she can bounce her thoughts around with Mma Makutsi.  This story ends where the Botswana stories always end, pledging allegiance to Africa. And it ends too quickly.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Worth Reading
  

*by R***S on Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2023*

I have read several of these stories of the #1 Ladies Detective Agency and have enjoyed them all - and book 14 was no exception.  Botswana owes a debt to Mr Smith for his portrayal of the country.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    I always enjoy reading about Gaborone and the ladies of the #1 Ladies Detective agency.
  

*by J***E on Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2023*

I like the philosophical way the characters think and describe their thinking. These books are also fun to read.Delightful is the one word that describes the stories the best.

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