An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good

by Helene Tursten

Translated by Marlene Delargy

Maud is an irascible 88-year-old woman with no family, no friends...and no qualms about a little murder. This funny irreverent story collection will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home. 

Ever since her darling father's untimely death, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg, Sweden rent-free, thanks to a minor clause in a hastily negotiated contract. That was how Maud learned  that good things can come from tragedy. Now in her late eighties, Maud leads a solitary existence, and she likes it that way. Over the course of her adventures - or misadventures - this little bold lady will handle a crisis with a local celebrity who has her eyes on Maud's apartment, foil the engagement of her long-ago lover, and dispose of some pesky neighbors. But when Detective Inspectors Irene Huss and Embla Nystrom are called in to investigate a dead body found in Maud's apartment, will Maud finally become a suspect?