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Sally Andrew
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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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"A bright new talent makes her fiction debut with this first novel in a delicious crime series set in rural South Africa: a flavorful blend of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and Goldy Schulz, full of humor, romance, and recipes, and featuring a charming cast of characters. Tannie Maria ("tannie" meaning auntie, the respectful Afrikaans address for a woman older than you) is a middle-aged widow who likes to cook and eat. She shares her culinary...
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Publisher
Penguin Random House South Africa
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Everybody's favourite agony aunt and crime fighter Tannie Maria needs some counselling advice of her own. Lingering troubles from a previous marriage still sit heavy on her, while fresh worries about Slimkat, a local man whose fighting for his people's land threatens his life, keep her up at night.
Tannie Maria seeks out a counsellor, jokily known to all as "the satanic mechanic". Straight out of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and from hot-as-hell...