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“McCall Smith’s assessments of fellow humans are piercing and profound . . . [His] depictions of Edinburgh are vivid and seamless.” —San Francisco Chronicle
It seems as if Isabel’s life has fallen into a comfortable and tidy rhythm. Well, as tidy as things can be with two small boys wreaking havoc around the house. But when her husband, Jamie, invites a woman named Dawn—recently embroiled in a contentious affair with a member of Jamie’s orchestra—to stay with them, things begin to go awry. Strange noises can be heard from the upper floor, even when Dawn is supposedly at work, and the couple wonders whether something more nefarious may be afoot.
If that weren’t enough, Professor Robert Lettuce is staging an academic conference and has asked Isabel to publish the conference papers in a special issue of the Review of Applied Ethics. But something is definitely suspect about the funding, and it will be up to Isabel to sort it out. As the truth comes to light, Isabel must once more rely on her kindness, powers of deduction and philosophical expertise to navigate these sensitive matters.
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- ISBN: 9780593701737
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- ISBN: 9780593701737
- File size: 2668 KB
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June 1, 2024
The Isabel Dalhousie novels, starring a woman who edits a philosophy journal and lives an idyllic life in Edinburgh with her handsome bassoonist husband and two sons, are billed as mysteries. However, as the series has gone on, the novels have strayed far from the mystery convention of having a central crime solved by an amateur sleuth. Now, Isabel cogitates more on sensitive issues rather than murder. In this, the fifteenth installment in the series, the main issues are whether to report a philosophy professor's fraudulent use of grant money for a conference; whether to ask an unsociable house tenant to leave; and how to defuse the tensions in a book club. A great deal of space is given to Isabel's thoughts and to the characters' long, digressive conversations. Not much is made of the Edinburgh setting. Some readers may be impatient with this, but others will love the extreme coziness, worldly wisdom, and humor of these books.COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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