Set in Botswana, a woman starts her own detective agency--she's apparently the only woman detective in the country--and starts solving small-time cases. There's a lot of background about the characters and about the country, all of it fascinating and lyrically written. And some real laugh-out-loud funny parts--I'm thinking particularly here of when the heroine muses that if there was a political party of constipated people they would never pass any legislation. Highly recommended. Of course, this is the first in a series of about 13 books so far...