An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good

Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family,no friendsand… no qualms about a little murder. This funnyirreverent story collection by Helene Turstenauthor of the Irene Huss investigationsfeatures 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 eighteenMaud has lived in the family’s spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent-freethanks 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 eightiesMaud contents herself with traveling the world and surfing the net from the comfort of her father’s ancient armchair. It’s a solitary existenceand she likes it that way. Over the course of her adventuresΓÇöor misadventuresΓÇöthis little bold lady will handle a crisis with a local celebrity who has her eyes on Maud’s apartmentfoil the engagement of her long-ago loverand dispose of some pesky neighbors. But when the local authorities are called to investigate a dead body found in Maud’s apartmentwill Maud finally become a suspect?