The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith

This is very different from his African series. These take place in Edinburgh, Scotland and center on philosopher Isabel Dalhousie. She is an amateur detective, or maybe she just sorts things out because she's a philosopher. In both of the books of his that I've read, he doesn't wrap things neatly up in a package. It's kind of nice since life isn't usually as neat as it is in most mysteries. No one is led away in handcuffs at the end, even though the mystery is solved. I liked that about the book. As for the philosophy, some of it was a bit much for me. I'd ask Art to explain, but I'm afraid he would!