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Charming quirks of others by Alexander McCall Smith

Although Alexander McCall Smith sometimes puts his main characters in peril they don't, in the end, suffer: leaving the reader feeling happy and content and that all in right in the world! Alexander McCall Smith's writes kindly and humane books which are an antidote to all the crime fiction I read!

As this is the 7th book in the Isabel Dalhousie series, I could barely keep my interest in Isabel as all the moral dilemmas that a middle-class lady in Edinburgh can plausibly encounter has been exhausted.

I feel like the series is starting to slowly run out of steam. It's a charming novel but it suffers badly from an absence of momentum. The plot is even slighter than usual.

McCall Smith's Edinburgh is a small town where everyone is connected and even taxi drivers are philosophers! People have no major failings, just "charming quirks". It's the kind of book that leaves you feeling a little lighter in
spirit, musing about topics such as the relative merits of Mozart vs the
dinosaurs.