The latest installment from THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY series Mma Ramotswe´s friend will persuade her to stand for election to the City Council. ´We need women like her in politics,´ Mma Potokwani says, ´instead of having the same old men every time . . .´ To be elected, Mma Ramotswe must have a platform and some policies. She will have to canvas opinion. She will have to get Mma Makutsi´s views. Her slogan is ´I can´t promise anything - but I shall do my best´. Her intention is to halt the construction of the Big Fun Hotel, a dubious, flashy business near a graveyard - an act that many consider to be disrespectful. Mma Ramotswe will take the campaign as far as she can, but lurking around the corner, as ever, is the inextinguishable Violet Sephotho.