An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten

That was how Maud learned that good things can come from tragedy.

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.Įver 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 minor clause in a hastily negotiated contract. Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and…no qualms about a little murder. An elderly lady is faced with a difficult dilemma An elderly lady seeks peace at Christmas time An elderly lady has accommodation problems Tursten lives in Gothenburg, Sweden.Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781641290111 Helene Tursten is the author of two detective novel series featuring characters Irene Huss and Embla Nyström, and two books following her octogenarian character Maud, An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good and An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed. In any case, that was when she made her first mistake. She let her visitor into the apartment.” But this time she didn’t exactly adopt her usual approach. Later on, Maud would blame it on the fact that she had been completely taken by surprise. Perhaps there was also a certain amount of curiosity about her famous neighbor. They automatically assumed she was deaf, which she most definitely was not. Nor was she senile. But she had learned that it was smart not to reveal that all her senses were in full working order instead, she allowed people to act in accordance with their own preconceptions. This was often a useful source of information, and Maud could form her own opinion of the person and the situation. “Broadly speaking, everyone Maud met these days spoke loudly and articulated with exaggerated clarity. In this delightfully morbid collection of linked short stories, Helene Tursten introduces readers to a new type of cold-blooded killer - because sometimes evil walks with a walker. But as her body count grows, local detectives are narrowing their gaze on her. Yet this luxurious apartment building has recently seen its fair share of death.ĭetermined to preserve her privacy and protect the things she holds dear, Maud finds an inventive way to resolve the problems that keep cropping up: she simply offs them. She may be gaining in years, but she still has all her faculties, travels the world at her leisure, and is fully capable of climbing some scaffolding when the need arises, thank you very much.Īs a result of a specially negotiated lease agreement after her father’s death, she has lived rent-free in the same spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg, Sweden, since she was a child - much to the consternation of her neighbors.

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten