By Dorothy Gilman (Author), Barbara Rosenblat (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

An Audiobook Review

  Mrs. Pollifax on Safari is a totally fun, cozy mystery. It’s true, Mrs. Pollifax is a woman of a certain age, but a livelier character you couldn’t find.

In this book she leaves her geraniums and volunteer hospital work to find an assassin in the dark continent of Africa. The CIA headman books this sleeper agent on a safari in Zambia. It seems his intel has warned the “Company” about a deadly killer who will get instructions for his next mark from someone on the safari. It’s later discovered that it is the president of Zambia who is to be killed!

Mrs. Pollifax is ONLY there to take photos of each safari member and send them to her handler, Carstairs. Of course, Emily never does ‘only’ what she is told and the intrepid lady decides to do a bit of spying.

There is a theft of her film, a kidnapping, a hostage situation, a threat of death, and the staking out of a “goat” to catch a “lion.” There is also a little “romance” (yes, can you believe it?) with a sweetheart of a gentleman named Cyrus!

Dorothy Gilman wrote a rollicking good series of Mrs. Pollifax books, and this one is especially appealing.

4 stars