With his No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Alexander McCall Smith created a saga out of many small but colorful episodes. In this collection, he offers 30 brief, utterly engaging tales, accompanied by charming illustrations by Iain McIntosh. Here we meet the first Australian pope, who hopes to finally find some peace and quiet back home in Perth; a psychotherapist turned motorcycle racetrack manager; some progressive Vikings, a group of housemates with complex romantic entanglements, and a couple of globe-trotting dentists.