Book review: The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith

The sixty-first book I read in 2016 was The Lost Art of Gratitude, the sixth installment in Alexander McCall Smith's Isabel Dalhousie series.  This book features the return of Minty Auchterlonie, whom I must admit I didn't really remember.  Isabel doesn't like her, but then, Isabel doesn't like so many people, it's hard to keep up.

Minty, seemingly oblivious to the other woman's dislike, asks Isabel to look into a series of harassing incidents, which she attributes to a discarded lover, but Minty has more and different motivations than those to which she admits.  In a far more interesting story line, Brother Fox, the sometime resident of Isabel's back garden is injured, and Isabel and Jamie arrange for veterinary assistance.