The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
By: Alexander McCall Smith
Series: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780307378415
Subjects: Social life and customs; Families; Contemporary Women; Mystery & Detective; Humorous; Pregnant women; Women private investigators; Fiction; Women Sleuths; FICTION; No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization); Precious Ramotswe (Fictitious character)
Description: "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series is moving to the fall! In the latest book in the beloved best-selling series of mysteries set in Botswana, Mma Ramotswe is asked to help the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, who is having trouble with her business. The salon has suffered some unfortunate events, including face cream that burns the skin. Could someone be trying to put the salon out of business? Meanwhile, on the home front, Mma Makutsi is going to have a baby. But in Botswana--a land where family has always been held above all else but which is on the crossroads between old and new--this may be cause for as much controversy as celebration"--

"In the latest book in the beloved best-selling series of mysteries set in Botswana, Mma Ramotswe is asked to help the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, who is having trouble with her business. The salon has suffered some unfortunate events, including face cream that burns the skin. Could someone be trying to put the salon out of business? Meanwhile, on the home front, Mma Makutsi is going to have a baby. But in Botswana--a land where family has always been held above all else but which is on the crossroads between old and new--this may be cause for as much controversy as celebration"--