Book review: The House of Unexpected Sisters by Alexander McCall Smith

The twenty-seventh book I read in 2018 was the eighteenth installment in Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, The House of Unexpected Sisters.  There's actually no paying job in this book, as Precious and Grace take on a charity case (literally!) and turn down a client at the end of the book because they don't agree with her motivations.  Perhaps McCall Smith is getting Mma Ramotswe confused with his other protagonist, Isabel Dalhousie, for whom money is no object.

The pro bono case the agency takes on is that of Charity (get it?) Mompoloki, a widow with young children who lost her job at an office furniture store for what she insists are unfair reasons, but the real meat of the story deals with Precious Ramotswe's discovery of a secret which casts a shadow over her memory of the daddy, the late sainted Obed Ramotswe.