Jill Scott the Detective

From: International Herald Tribune: Culture

The Associated PressPublished: July 5, 2007

The best-selling “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, about a folksy sleuth in Botswana, is to be adapted by the Academy Award-winning director Anthony Minghella. The American R&B singer Jill Scott is to play the detective, whose professional philosophy is: “We help people with the problems in their lives. We are not here to solve crimes.” The film, which is being shot in Botswana with the backing of the government, was designed as a television movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter.