Distant view of everything, paperback/alexander mccall smith

Shortly after the birth of her second son, Isabel Dalhousie changes scene to a job making sandwiches at her nieces delicatessen, only to be drawn into a potentially dangerous instance of matchmaking involving suspicious plastic surgeon Tony MacUspaig.

As the mystery around MacUspaig thickens, and as Isabels husband develops an equally mysterious illness, Isabel is forced to address the difference between neurotic fantasy and urgent reality.