The Sunday Philosophy Club

Well, that was a disappointment. The mystery, such as it is, is boring and trivially resolved in the last two pages, after numerous red herrings, none of which are really ever resolved.The characters are boring – Isabel Dalhousie is an elderly, rich Scottish woman who, despite frequently judging everyone else for being layabouts, seems to do nothing to occupy her time except judge others, nose into other people's business and obsess about the sex life of people half her age.The schtick of the book is ostensibly the philosophy, but this is no [b:Sophie's World 10959 Sophie's World (Paperback) Jostein Gaarder http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21A6T5PH7YL.SL75.jpg 4432325]. Philosophy is mentioned in passing, over-simplified and only in the most trite way. There's very little redeemable here.

I wasn't overblown by the narrator of this series as she was quite proper, quite long winded, and quite judgy. That being said, when you edit the Journal of Applied Ethics, I suppose those character traits go with the territory. I loved the descriptions of Edinburgh and I thought the housekeeper was a hoot. I still haven't read No 1 Ladies Detective Agency, but I'll give the second in this series a shot for sure,