Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries (Hardcover): The Careful Use of Compliments (Hardcover)

from richardderus

This is the fourth Isabel Dalhousie novel, as I am pleased to note Pantheon is now marketing them, not mysteries. Now I wonder why my library still keeps them in the mysteries...? It's a lovely, warm way to spend a frustrating day's end, reading a well-written book about quiet, domestic things, a...

from knittingfreak

This is the latest in the Sunday Philosophy Club series by Alexander McCall Smith. The author is best known for his No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, which is good. But, if you haven't yet read anything else by this author, you are in for a treat. I look forward to each new book in this serie...

from drsyko

This book is yet another score for McCall Smith. Smith is that rare male author who obviously likes women and writes them extremely well. Isabel Dalhousie is a fully realized, complicated female character who is unique. She is kind, smart, highly moral, and in love with a much younger man who use...

from debnance

I had pretty much given up on Smith's Isabel Dalhousie books. Then I ran across some encouraging words about this latest Isabel Dalhousie book and I sought it out. I'm glad I did. Smith gives Isabel a little bite in this installment of the series, a bite she (in my vho) needed; Isabel had always ...

from NewsieQ

Isabel Dalhousie is a singular heroine ... and it's a joy to get inside her head. With a PhD in philosophy and a finely tuned sense of what's right and wrong, her musings provide many a meditation for readers. But it would be erroneous to believe that these lovely novels are anything but great st...