A review by hissingpotatoes
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

2.5

I guess this is considered a cozy mystery? It's not my usual genre, but it definitely feels cozy. Maybe a little too much. There's very little connective tissue to the story. Often an entire chapter goes onto a tangent into a side character's full history or Botswanan history/culture. The main plot doesn't make its presence known until 2/3 of the way through, and even then there's no sense of urgency or conflict/difficulty and it's distracted from with sideplots. I like the main character but there was never a hook for me.