TY - BOOK AU - McCall Smith,Alexander TI - The geometry of holding hands T2 - An Isabel Dalhousie novel SN - 9781524748944 PY - 2020///] CY - New York PB - Pantheon Books KW - Dalhousie, Isabel KW - Women philosophers KW - Fiction KW - Edinburgh (Scotland) KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft N1 - "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Little, Brown, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, a Hachette UK company, London, in 2020."--Title page verso; Color illustration: map on endpapers N2 - "One of the author's most beloved characters is back--and once again she will have to call upon her powers of deduction and her unflappable moral code to unravel a new philosophical mystery. In Edinburgh, rumors and gossip abound. But Isabel well knows that such things can't be taken at face value. Still, the latest whispers hint at mysterious goings-on, and who but Isabel can be trusted to get to the bottom of them? At the same time, she must deal with the demands of her two small children, her husband, and her rather tempestuous niece, Cat, whose latest romantic entanglement comes--to no one's surprise--with complications. Still, even with so much going on, Isabel, through the application of good sense, logic, and ethics, will, as ever, triumph"-- ER -