num_pages: 400
description: ISABEL DALHOUSIE - Book 7Nothing captures the charm of Edinburgh like the bestselling Isabel Dalhousie series of novels featuring the insatiably curious philosopher and woman detective. Whether investigating a case or a problem of philosophy the indefatigable Isabel Dalhousie one of fictions most richly developed amateur detectives is always ready to pursue the answers to all of lifes questions large and small.Isabel has been asked for her help in a rather tricky A successor is being sought for the headmaster at a local boys school. The board has three final candidates but has received an anonymous letter alleging that one of them has a very serious skeleton in the closet. Could Isabel discreetly look into it? And so she does. What she discovers about all the candidates is surprising but what she discovers about herself and about Jamie the father of her young son turns out to be equally revealing. Isabels investigation will have her exploring issues of ambition as well as of charity forgiveness and humility as she moves nearer and nearer to some of the most hidden precincts of the heart. Here is Isabel Dalhousie at her beguiling intelligent insightful and with a unique understanding of the quirks of human nature.From the Hardcover edition.
language: English
title: The Charming Quirks of Others
publisher: Random House Large Print