An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good-Fast Shipping

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Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and… no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home.

Ever since her darling father’suntimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in thefamily’s spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent-free, thanks to aminor clause in a hastily negotiated contract. That was how Maudlearned that good things can come from tragedy. Now in her lateeighties, Maud contents herself with traveling the world and surfing thenet from the comfort of her father’s ancient armchair. It’s a solitaryexistence, and she likes it that way.

Over the course of her adventures—ormisadventures—this little bold lady will handle a crisis with a localcelebrity who has her eyes on Maud’s apartment, foil the engagement ofher long-ago lover, and dispose of some pesky neighbors. But when thelocal authorities are called to investigate a dead body found in Maud’s apartment, will Maud finally become a suspect?