As winter turns to spring across Botswana, all is not quite as it should be on Zebra Drive. The cases keep coming into the No.1 Ladies'Detective Agency and Mma Makutsi's impending marriage threatens her happy working relationship with Mma Ramotswe. Will the agency have the man-power to cope? Will Precious be able to explain an unexpected series of deaths at the hospital in Mochudi? And what about the missing office supplies at Teenie Magama's printing company? In the midst of this, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni trying to prove himself a worthy husband, decides to try a little detective work- and naturally, disaster looms.