Botswanan detective Precious Ramotswe and her assistant open an adjunct business--a men's typing school--which helps Mma Makutsi find a man and also helps financially when some arrogant investigative competition arrives in town; meanwhile, Precious's adopted son hits puberty at full speed.
Precious Ramotswe, owner of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Botswana, wonders about the direction of her relationship with her boyfriend, while investigating the suitors of a wealthy entrepreneur in an attempt to determine whether they are after the woman's heart or her money.
The cunning and engaging Precious Ramotswe sets up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, hoping to become a private detective, and she soon has more business than she expected, including a disturbing case involving a missing child.
Margaret, an orphaned Masarwa girl, suffers vicious ostracism when she goes to teach in a Botswana village where her people, seen as subhuman, are kept as slaves.
The cunning and engaging Precious Ramotswe sets up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, hoping to become a private detective, and she soon has more business than she expected, including a disturbing case involving a missing child.
Before becoming the first female private investigator in Botswana, eight-year-old Precious Ramotswe tracks down a thief who has been stealing her classmates' snacks.
Eight-year-old Precious Ramotswe becomes friends with siblings Teb and Pontsho and their pet meerkat, Kosi, and when her new friends' cow goes missing, she decides to help out by finding it.
