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I love MMA Romotswe and all her friends. I love the descriptions of Botswana, the cattle, the sky, the landscape and the lives of the people who live there.

And, generally, I love these novels, but this one felt forced and a little off. The ending came quickly, as if the author had found something more important to do and just wanted it finished. I would never want these novels to end, but perhaps Mr. McCall Smith needs to take a bit of a break and recharge his Botswanan reserves.


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The Colors of All the Cattle No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series Alexander McCall Smith 9781524747800 Books Reviews

For years I have enjoyed the No1 Ladies Detective Series novels. Coming from South Africa a lot is familiar - and yet different. The culture of Botswana is different from that of the Zulus and Xhosa, and yet, like Europeans - the Brits, the Greeks, the Poles, the Italians - there's enough common ground for a good understandable story. But this latest instalment, lacks the edginess between Precious and Grace - always a delight! It lacks the skills of detective analysis as taught in the famous Clovis handbook (that copy must in tatters by now) and introduces a whole new, reluctant, political element, resolved by a Deus ex Machina let-out at the end. I don't want to give too much away, but I think it's the last of the series I'll be buying to read. I guess all good things to the end must come. Thank you for the earlier great reads.
In “The Color of All the Cattle,” readers will again encounter the human decency that makes Alexander McCall Smith’s No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series endearing and popular.

As always, the plot sidles as much as it advances, Smith’s characters speculating volubly on an eccentric range of topics, most (but not all) relevant to the story. The major action involves Mma Ramotswe’s unlikely campaign for the Gaborone City Council, but this book belongs to Charlie, a part-time investigator in her agency long employed as a mechanic by her husband. The bad boy of the series begins to grow up and the transformation is beautifully rendered.

But there’s humor too, of course. A manifesto Mma Makutsi writes to attack her arch-enemy Violet Sephotho is worth the price of admission.

In fact, the book is so good that a comparatively limp conclusion seems more a blemish than a flaw. True, an important plot line is left unresolved. But we’re all going to read the next book anyway. And the next, and the next.
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels are never fast moving, but they usually draw you in with the charm of the characters, the light mystery, and Botswana. I'm sorry to report that this entry drags on. Getting Precious involved in local politics goes nowhere, and is boring. The best thing about this book is the chapter concerning the "fight" between Grace and Phuti. I laughed because Grace gets on everyone's nerves, and it was fun to see her husband finally stand up to her. The secondary story concerning Charlie would have been better if cut down; it went on forever. For all the complaints, I still look forward to the next story in the series.
As always, the solutions in the cases Mma Ramotswe are ones based on simple, under rated values. Compassion, kindness and common sense do the trick, just as a simple placebo of coloured water soothes the complaints of a suffering patient at the Mochudi clinic who needed only simple kindness.
I really like this series of books. They are a light read and are not inundated with sex, violence and foul language.
After a couple of lackluster entries to the long-running "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" series, Mma Ramotswe, Mma Makutsi, and Mma Potokwane, and Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni return with an enlivened plot and a few welcome twists. Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's favorite and perhaps its only woman detective, embarks on a quest to find the hit and run driver of a car that struck a revered doctor from her childhood, and she gets unlikely help from Charlie, the mechanic still figuring out how to change an oil filter.

The sub-plot with Charlie, now 26, is poignant and layered. It enriches the book as the young man falls hard for the beautiful and well named Queenie-Queenie, who, it appears, is far out of the league of the apprentice mechanic and detective. She's not only gorgeous but from a very rich family; her well-toned brother is also highly protective and capable of causing bodily harm in any number of horrifying ways. Meanwhile, Charlie's rather effective detective work roots out the hit and run driver, an amoral thug likewise willing to bring the hapless young man to perdition. His travails and triumphs flesh out a newly interesting character.

Meanwhile Mma Potokwane has decided, and therefore it will happen, that Precious will run for the equivalent of City Councilwoman in order to stop the development of a shady hotel (brothel?) way too close to a sacred graveyard. Of course, the always menacing Violet Sephotho lurks in the background of this nefarious scheme, as she always seems to lurk when the adjective "nefarious" applies. Interestingly, Violet is talked about but never appears in the story. Mma Makutsi's botched detective work has no effect, and it is left to Mma Ramotswe to win the day by running against the formidable Violet.

One sour note is hit here. Mma Ramotwe is featured in the voting booth staring at the ballot adorned with her name — and Violet's — making the election no longer theoretical but a frightening reality. Her inner agony at the prospect of voting for herself and her ultimate choice found me deeply disconcerted, even distraught. This was not the Precious Ramotswe I've come to know 19 volumes in. This is of course a personal reaction; others may perceive the scene quite differently.

All in all, however, the resolutions are satisfying and beautiful Botswana emerges once again a jewel in the African firmament. Contentment descends upon our beloved residents as they go about repairing cars, selling couches, embracing orphans, and, of course, solving the inscrutable mysteries that will never withstand the transcendent sleuthing skills of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.
Fans of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency will not be disappointed with Book 19 in the series. "The Colours of all the Cattle" rekindles our relationship with the lovable characters of the book as well as the easy going life in Botswana. This volume introduced the fascinating new prospect of Mma Ramotswe as a politician! Heaven forbid! But it all works out as it should, and we wait in anticipation for Book 20.
I love MMA Romotswe and all her friends. I love the descriptions of Botswana, the cattle, the sky, the landscape and the lives of the people who live there.

And, generally, I love these novels, but this one felt forced and a little off. The ending came quickly, as if the author had found something more important to do and just wanted it finished. I would never want these novels to end, but perhaps Mr. McCall Smith needs to take a bit of a break and recharge his Botswanan reserves.