The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café is the fifteenth mystery novel by Alexander McCall Smith in the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, first published in 2014.

She envisages this to be place for fashionable men to hobnob, and in her excitement ignores the various warning signs, even when alerted by her husband Phuti Radiphuti and her idol and boss Mma Ramotswe.

To make the matters worse, her nemesis Violet Sephotho, who is now a restaurant critic, spares no mean words in her review published in the leading national daily.

Mma Potokwani calls an old friend, who is now a senior police official in South Africa, to check the matter impartially and get the lady's name off the wanted list for murder, which resolves her problem.

[2] Kirkus Reviews considers the plot to use a deus ex machina, Orphan Farm matron Mma Potokwane to resolve the problems, but "all’s well that ends well in perhaps the most tranquil and unruffled entry in this renowned series.