In this delightful second installment in Alexander McCall Smith?s best-selling new detective series, the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, gets caught up in an affair of the heart?this one a transplant.
Isabel Dalhousie #2
Pantheon
September 2005
Featuring: Isabel Dalhousie
272 pages ISBN: 0375422994 EAN: 9780375422997 Kindle: B000FCKEFY Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
When Isabelβs niece, Cat, asks Isabel to run her delicatessen while she attends a wedding in Italy, Isabel meets a man with a most interesting problem. He recently had a heart transplant and is suddenly plagued with memories of events that never happened to him. The situation appeals to Isabel as a philosophical question: Is the heart truly the seat of the soul? And it piques her insatiable curiosity: Could the memories be connected with the donorβs demise? Of course, GraceβIsabelβs no-nonsense housekeeperβand Isabelβs friend Jamie think it is none of Isabelβs business. Meanwhile, Cat brings home an Italian lothario, who, in accordance with all that Isabel knows about Italian lotharios, shouldnβt be trusted . . . but, goodness, he is charming.
That makes two mysteries of the heart to be solvedβjust the thing for Isabel Dalhousie.