An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten, 171 pagesWhat a wonderfully quirky set of short stories! Maud is almost 90 years old and lives alone in an apartment in Gothenburg, Sweden. She travels on her own from time to time and generally avoids her neighbors (who, on the whole, resent the deal that allows her to live rent-free in a huge apartment in an expensive building). And she also has no qualms about killing someone who annoys her.
In a note at the end of the book, Tursten writes that she created the first of these stories when she decided to take a break from writing about someone solving crime — apparently she liked the bad guy angle enough to return from time to time. And it's a good thing she did! These stories made me giggle, though I definitely wouldn't want to live next door to Maud.
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