The situation appeals to Isabel as a philosophical question: Is the heart truly the seat of the soul? And it piques her insatiable curiosity: Could the memories be connected with the donor's demise? Of course, Grace-Isabel's no-nonsense housekeeper-and Isabel's friend Jamie think it is none of Isabel's business. He recently had a heart transplant and is suddenly plagued with memories of events that never happened to him.
When Isabel's niece, Cat, asks Isabel to run her delicatessen while she attends a wedding in Italy, Isabel meets a man with a most interesting problem. In this delightful second installment in Alexander McCall Smith's best-selling new detective series, the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, gets caught up in an affair of the heart-this one a transplant. Whether investigating a case or a problem of philosophy, the indefatigable Isabel Dalhousie, one of fiction's most richly developed amateur detectives, is always ready to pursue the answers to all of life's questions, large and small. The last of these comes in many forms - chocolate, for example, or seductive Italians.Nothing captures the charm of Edinburgh like the bestselling Isabel Dalhousie series of novels featuring the insatiably curious philosopher and woman detective. But she still has time to think about the things that possess her - things like love and friendship, and, of course, temptation. So intrigued that she finds herself rushing headlong into a dangerous investigation. One of the customers, she discovers, has recently had a heart transplant and is now being plagued by memories that cannot be rationally explained and which he feels do not belong to him. When Cat takes a break in Italy, Isabel agrees to run her delicatessen.
'I am a philosopher', she thinks, 'but I am also a woman'. Jamie's handsomeness leaves Isabel feeling distinctly uneasy, and ethically disturbed.
She can review a book called In Praise of Sin with panache and conviction, but real life is.well, perhaps a bit more challenging - particularly when it comes to her feelings for Jamie, a younger man who should have married her niece, Cat. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is certain of where she stands. Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate.
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