The Comfort of Saturdays — Alexander McCall Smith

Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy she d rather not be a sleuth But when a chance conversation at a dinner party draws Isabel into the case of a doctor whose career has been ruined she cannot ignore what may be a miscarriage of justice Because for Isabel ethics are not theoretical at all but an everyday matter of life and death As she attempts to unravel the truth behind Dr Thompson s disgrace Isabel s patient intelligence is also required to deal with challenges in her own life spending more time with her son looking after her niece Cat s delicatessen and most alarmingly accomodating boyfriend Jamie s friendship with the thoroughly unlikeable Nick Smart from which she s excluded While treading a difficult path between trust and gullibility altuism and interference keeping in her sights the small but certain comforts of family philosophy and a fine Saturday morning