As the temperature rises in Gaborone, Precious Ramotswe, founder of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, wonders whether the heat could be the reason that business is particularly slow. But then a distant cousin of Mma Ramotswe's comes to the agency with a plea for help and the ladies decide to pursue the issue together. Armed with Mma Ramotswe's circumspection and Mma Makutsi's sharp eye, they proceed with confidence and open hearts. What, after all,...

When the first two brothers answer 'not I' to the big bad wolf question, they go on to build their new homes - one out of straw and the other of sticks. But when the wolf huffs and puffs and blows their houses down, the brothers seek protection in the third pig's house. He made his house out of bricks. When the wolf comes to blow down the house, the brothers hope it is strong enough.

Mma "Precious" Ramotswe is now engaged to Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, the kind owner of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. This new development provokes a hostile reaction from Mr. Matekoni's unscrupulous maid, who quickly begins plotting the disintegration of the engagement. Despite all this, duty calls, and Mma Ramotswe is asked to help find an American woman's son who has been missing in Africa for 10 years.

Documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the people who rescue and rehabilitate them to be able to go back into the wild and survive.