He impulsively suggests to Isabel that they go on a tour of Scotland, and she considers the benefits of having an Italian lover.Ī few days later, Isabel sees Graeme in a pub, and phones Ian, who comes to the pub and confirms that Graeme is the man in his memory. Hearing this, Isabel decides to go out to dinner with Tomasso, who is very attractive. When Isabel phones Jamie the next day to apologize, Jamie says that he and Louise have broken up – because Jamie is still in love with Cat. That evening, Jamie and his lover Louise visit Isabel, who is determined to be polite but her jealousy gets the better of her and she is rude to Louise, who leaves with Jamie. However, Rose insists that Rory was not an organ donor.

She visits Rory's mother, Rose, and meets Rose's partner Graeme, who perfectly fits Ian's description of the possible killer. The next day, Isabel discovers that a young man, Rory Macloed, died in a hit-and-run accident on the day that Ian received his new heart. Later that evening, she is shocked when Jamie tells her that he is having an affair with a married woman. Isabel dismisses the idea, thinking of Jamie. Cat suggests that he and Isabel, being of similar age, should go out to dinner. Later, Cat tells Isabel that she is about to receive a visit from Tomasso, an Italian whom Cat recently met at a friend's wedding. Ian is worried that this man may have killed the original owner of the heart, and Isabel decides that they have a moral duty to try to find out more. When visiting Cat's delicatessen one lunchtime, Isabel meets Ian, who has recently had a heart transplant, and seems to have gained the memories of the heart's former owner, particularly the memory of a sinister-looking man with hooded eyes and a scar on his forehead. Her closest friends are her niece Cat, a young woman who runs a delicatessen her housekeeper Grace, who is outspoken and interested in spiritualism Cat's ex-boyfriend Jamie, a bassoonist to whom Isabel has been secretly attracted ever since they met and Brother Fox, an urban fox who lives in Isabel's garden. Due to an inheritance from her late mother, she can work for a nominal fee as the editor of the Review of Applied Ethics. Isabel Dalhousie is in her early forties and lives alone in Edinburgh.

It was first published in 2005, and is the sequel to The Sunday Philosophy Club. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate is the second of the Sunday Philosophy Club series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, set in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featuring the protagonist Isabel Dalhousie.

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