Lost Art of Gratitude

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Alexander McCall Smith: Lost Art of Gratitude (2009, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

256 pages

English language

Published 2009 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

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978-0-7481-1111-4
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The sensational sixth installment in the best-selling chronicles of the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie. Isabel's son, Charlie, is now of an age--eighteen months--to have a social life, and so off they go to a birthday party, where, much to Isabel's surprise, she encounters an old adversary, Minty Auchterlonie, now a high-flying financier. Minty had seemed to Isabel a woman of ruthless ambition, but the question of her integrity had never been answered. Now, when Minty takes Isabel into her confidence about a personal matter, Isabel finds herself going another round: Is Minty to be trusted? Or is she the perpetrator of an enormous financial fraud? And what should Isabel make of the rumors of shady financial transactions at Minty's investment bank?Not that this is the only dilemma facing Isabel: she also crosses swords again with her nemesis, Professor Dove, in an argument over plagiarism. Of course her niece, Cat, has …

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Subjects

  • Dalhousie, isabel (fictitious character), fiction
  • Edinburgh (scotland), fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths