Morality for Beautiful Girls

Alexander McCall Smith, R. A. McCall Smith. Polygon, $12.95 (202pp) ISBN 978-0-7486-6297-5

In Morality for Beautiful Girls, Ramotswe tangles with a feral child, the finalists in a beauty pageant and a suspicious cook.

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