ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH is the author of the international phenomenon The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the Isabel Dalhousie series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, the 44 Scotland Street series, and the Corduroy Mansions series. He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and has served with many national and international organizations concerned with bioethics. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and he was a law professor at the University of Botswana.
"McCall Smith gives us each of his characters' points of view, moving deftly from one to the other...as we learn exactly what characters are thinking of each other and themselves. Humor and insight abound." Booklist (starred review)
"McCall Smith's charming, quirky and exhasperating characters make you smile in spite of yourself." The Independent