It was the week before Thanksgiving when Kinsey Millhone first heard the sad story of the late Johnny Lee, the World War II fighter pilot of whom, rather mysteriously, the military authorities have no record. His family are concerned - perhaps Kinsey could make a few calls, straighten things out? Then Johnny's apartment is ransacked.

By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres', this is a novel which skewers both academia and agribusiness. Set in the late 1980s, in a Midwestern agricultural college called Moo University, the story concerns technological foolishness, campus rivalry, sex and intrigue.

* In this third volume of highly original 'detective' stories with a unique setting and characters, the irrepressible, Precious Ramotswe faces supreme problems at home and at work.

* Highly original 'detective' stories with unique setting and characters

In this delicately wrought and profoundly moving, multi-award winning novel, Andrea Levy handles the weighty themes of empire, prejudice, war and love, with a lightness of touch and a generosity of spirit that challenges and uplifts the reader.

There was nothing about Beverly Danziger to cause Kinsey Millhone, private investigator, concern. There was a will to be settled. And if it seemed a lot of money for a routine job, Kinsey wasn't going to argue. But just as Kinsey begins to suspect foul play and start asking questions, Beverly Danziger pulls her off the case and fires her.