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An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
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Our hero, or shall we say “anti-hero,” Maud keeps her neighbors on their toes. And they better not underestimate the 88-year-old star of these short stories. The fun in these stories is being allowed to root for the underdog—even if she’s sly. An enjoyable and successful reverse engineering of the crime fiction genre.
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's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent-free, thanks to a m...
Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent-free, thanks to a m...
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