From a far and lovely country / Alexander McCall Smith.

If you are the founder and Managing Director of theNo. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, you may expect complete strangers to approach you with their problems when they see you having dinner with your husband in a peri-peri restaurant. And if you are Precious Ramotswe, you are a kind and helpful person who will be willing to take on a quest to find the relatives of a man who, many years ago, left the country for the uncertainties and dangers of a distant conflict. Whie that is going on, though, there may be other things that claim your attention - such as the shocking news that a club calls itself the Cool Singles Evening Club is encouraging married men to pretend to be single and meet women under false pretences. Who can be behind such a distasteful venture? And all the time, Precious and her assistant, Grace, are getting on with their normal lives.