The lost art of gratitude
McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-
The lost art of gratitude / Alexander McCall Smith - 1st Anchor Books ed - New York : Anchor Books , 2009. - 262 p. ; 21 cm.
The sensational sixth installment in the best-selling chronicles of the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie. Isabel's son, Charlie, is now of an age--eighteen months--to have a social life, and so off they go to a birthday party, where, much to Isabel's surprise, she encounters an old adversary, Minty Auchterlonie, now a high-flying financier. Minty had seemed to Isabel a woman of ruthless ambition, but the question of her integrity had never been answered. Now, when Minty takes Isabel into her confidence about a personal matter, Isabel finds herself going another round: Is Minty to be trusted? Or is she the perpetrator of an enormous financial fraud? And what should Isabel make of the rumors of shady financial transactions at Minty's investment bank?
9780307387080
2009022618
Women editors----Fiction
Women philosophers----Fiction
Edinburgh (Scotland)----Fiction
Mystery fiction
PR6063.C326 / L67 2009
MYS MCC
The lost art of gratitude / Alexander McCall Smith - 1st Anchor Books ed - New York : Anchor Books , 2009. - 262 p. ; 21 cm.
The sensational sixth installment in the best-selling chronicles of the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie. Isabel's son, Charlie, is now of an age--eighteen months--to have a social life, and so off they go to a birthday party, where, much to Isabel's surprise, she encounters an old adversary, Minty Auchterlonie, now a high-flying financier. Minty had seemed to Isabel a woman of ruthless ambition, but the question of her integrity had never been answered. Now, when Minty takes Isabel into her confidence about a personal matter, Isabel finds herself going another round: Is Minty to be trusted? Or is she the perpetrator of an enormous financial fraud? And what should Isabel make of the rumors of shady financial transactions at Minty's investment bank?
9780307387080
2009022618
Women editors----Fiction
Women philosophers----Fiction
Edinburgh (Scotland)----Fiction
Mystery fiction
PR6063.C326 / L67 2009
MYS MCC
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