Book review: The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith

The ninth book I read in 2015 is the eighth book in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith.  Both Grace Makutsi and Charlie the apprentice flirt with greener pastures, but neither, thankfully, ultimately quit the environs of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, though Charlie's inevitable return involves more humble pie than Mma Makutsi's.

The main mystery (or one of them, because there's always more than one ongoing case) is copied straight from Snopes.com, even to the day of the week it occurs on, although the setting is switched from Capetown to Botswana.  The urban legend dates back at least to 1996 and was used in an episode of the Frost detective television series in Smith's native UK in 2001, which is more than a little lazy.  But one doesn't read the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series for its airtight plots, and the outcome of Mma Makutsi's separate investigation is charmingly unconventional.