Isabel is very much like Mma Ramotswe, star of THE NO. Her pleasant lifestyle is disturbed, though, when, during a night out at a concert, she witnesses a young man falling from the top balcony. Isabel Dalhousie is a 40-something woman of independent means who lives in a large Edinburgh house with an housekeeper to look after her, and who spends her time editing a philosophical journal and being seen at all the right parties and exhibitions. THE SUNDAY PHILOSOPHY CLUB is really very civilised, as you might therefore expect. He took some pot-shots not so long ago at the likes of fellow Scottish writers Irvine Welsh - basically for writing about nasty things like drugs and for cussing a lot. McCall Smith, the university academic-turned-crime fiction sensation, seems to be starting a single-handed campaign to bring niceness back into writing. If you like Alexander McCall Smith's Botswana series, you will no doubt lap this book up, and if you are a fan of the likes of Mo Hayder, don't even go there.
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