LC P. (smallorder) reviewed on 4/18/2007 + 67 more book reviews

Isabel Dalhousie is a philospher by training, and an amateur sleuth by choice. When a young man falls from a balcony to his death, Isabel's curiousity is aroused. She does not believe the fall was an accident, and she is determined to root out the truth. With a little help from some friends, Isabel plunges deep into the shady business community of Edinburgh to find some answers. I love Alexander McCall Smith's "The No. 1 Ladies Detective" series so I anticipated this series to be of the same caliber. It wasn't. It didn't have a central character I could identify with (The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" central character, "Precious Ramotswe, Botswana detective that is traditionally built" is someone I have much in common and would love to live next door to and have tea with even though she is a far cry from my own Eastern European roots, Midwest born and raised, lived in remote areas of developing countries, and finally settling in the Old South to raise my family).

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