
Only now does the boy’s mother learn what a native Botswana woman can do with a high school education, a woman’s intuition, and a few months’ experience as a self-taught investigator. Neither the police, nor an expert tracker, nor the American embassy could help. Then, suddenly, he vanished, and for ten years, not a trace of him could be found. This time it’s a 20-year-old American boy whose parents left him behind when they returned home from diplomatic duty in Botswana because he had such a “heart for Africa” that he didn’t want to leave.įor a couple years, the parents heard regularly from their son as he worked on an experimental farm. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Mma Ramotswe again wrestles with the case of a missing son whose trail has gone cold.
