The Lost Art Of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith

The Lost Art Of Gratitude by
Alexander McCall Smith
Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher and amateur solver of other people’s
problems, meets an old foe, Minty Auchterlonie, at a birthday party attended
by their young children. Ambitious Minty, now the head of a small investment
bank, is in trouble with her shareholders. Isabel becomes involved, and is
drawn into a murky world of financial concealment.

Minty is not the only high-flier in Isabel’s life; her niece Cat has just
become engaged to a tightrope-walking stuntman. Isabel fears his next job –
and the engagement – could end in disaster. Meanwhile, her own boyfriend
Jamie has marriage in mind too . . .