Alexander McCall Smith is the author of more than fifty works, including the Ladies' First Detective Agency series of novels, published in the United States ...

When Christopher Thomas, a curator at San Francisco's Museum of Fine Arts, is murdered and his decaying body is found in an iron maiden in Berlin, his wif...

The tenth installment of this universally beloved and best-selling series finds Precious Ramotswe in personal need of her own formidable detection talents...

'The Kalaharl Typing School for Men' is the fourth novel in the widely acclaimed No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Following on from 'Morallty for Bea...

An anthology of storiesThe most venerated and bestselling authors in the mystery world reveal how they created their most beloved serial characters.

Isabella Dalhousie has many friends, but no lovers, although she sometimes gives in to temptations, be it chocolate or traveling with an Italian playboy. She...

The story of Bertie and his dysfunctional family continues in this fifth instalment alongside the familiar cast of favourites – Big Lou, Domenica, Angus L...

If ever a subject begged to be associated with crime it is gambling, writes Otto Penzler in his introduction to this collection of short stories set at th...

Isabella Dalhousie raises her son and investigates the story of the mysterious death of an artist in a bay near the island of Jura. But what is much more ser...

Alexander McCall Smith is the author of a series of novels about Mma Ramotswe and her detective agency, about a shrewd and charming woman who dreams of “help...