Yes, and she has a love interest which never seems to boil over - after all, she’s British and discreet.Īnd of course, she has a modern brain which often DOES sometimes heat to the maximum. You see, this great artist’s works are inexplicably multiplying, even though he’s missing and presumed dead! Isabel smells a rat. How often do you find cozy mysteries with a brooding, atmospheric conundrum at their heart? So she gets into some pretty sticky wickets!īut she’s endlessly charming, and combines sophistication with a disarming guilelessness that will captivate the less demanding cozy mystery lover - who yearns to relax under the spell of a sympathetically ‘normal’ author.Īnd this adroitly-resolved mystery about a fascinating contemporary painter - whose works for Isabel are at the very apogée of personal faves - is fascinating. Her thought patterns have the non-panoptic vision of navigating one’s way through the Chunnel.
The old ways are there for a reason, she thinks. Hers is a solidly ordered world which quite adroitly and firmly sidesteps the glaring devils of postmodernism. Though agnostic, she believes philosophical ethics can be firmly grounded in common civility and decency. Isabel Dalhousie is an inquisitive and philosophizing young lady, but she lacks street smarts. Immense learning and a lifetime of experience combined with careful, playful observation make each one of his books a harried literate modern’s Great Escape. and soon finds herself diverging from her philosophical musings about fatherhood onto a path that leads her into the mysteries of the art world and the soul of an artist.įor a great light read, why not start with the eminently civilised novels of McCall Smith?
Are these paintings forgeries? This proves to be sufficient fodder for Isabel's inquisitiveness. And when she attends an art auction, she finds an irresistible puzzle: two paintings attributed to a now-deceased artist appear on the market at the same time, and both of them exhibit some unusual characteristics. None of these things, however, in any way diminshes Isabel's curiosity. In the midst of all this, she receives a disturbing letter announcing that she has been ousted as editor of the Review of Applied Ethics by the ambitious Professor Dove.
Charlies, her newborn son, presents her with a myriad wonders of a new life, and doting father Jamie presents her with an intriguing proposal: marriage. In addition to being the nosiest and most sympathetic philosopher you are likely to meet, Isabel is now a mother.
Isabel Dalhousie is back, in the latest installment of this enchanting, already beloved, best-selling series.
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