Book Report #96 - At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances

At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances by Alexander McCall Smith

This is part of a series written by the author of The New No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. It follows Professor von Iglefeld of Germany to a visiting professor position at Cambridge University and then to Columbia (the country) where he receives an award for his work, Portuguese Irregular Verbs. Smith is charming as usual but can spend too much time on the mundane, like the drama between the professors in Germany. I didn't particularly care about all their trifles. The best part was definitely the end of the trip to Columbia where things got deliciously out of hand.

General consensus: Not Smith's best but fun to read in a John Cleese voice.