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Up to No Good: The Complete Elderly Lady Stories

by Helene Tursten

A complete collection of Maud’s darkly comic crime capers

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A complete collection of Maud’s darkly comic crime capers

This volume gathers all eleven Elderly Lady stories, including a new adventure, and adds bonus recipes and an original cross-stitch pattern. At the center is Maud, an 88-year-old Gothenburg resident determined to protect the comfortable life she has built in the apartment where she grew up. The stories turn that domestic arrangement into the starting point for crime: when Maud sees a Problem threatening her peace, she takes matters into her own hands, while the number of graves and growing suspicions complicate her efforts to remain unnoticed. The collection brings together material from two earlier story collections in one edition.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy crime fiction with a darkly comic premise.
  • Readers interested in a linked collection of short stories centered on one recurring character.
  • Fans of mysteries set in Gothenburg or involving an elderly central character.

Themes

Crime and detectionProtecting one’s independenceAppearances and suspicionDomestic life disrupted

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Book overview

Little old lady or stone-cold killer? Maud might just be a little of each. Now, for the first time ever, all eleven Elderly Lady stories--plus a brand-new adventure--come together in this long-anticipated edition featuring bonus recipes and a delightfully dark original cross-stitch pattern.

Up to No Good (soon to be an original series starring Glenn Close) brings together all of Maud's darkly funny capers from the cult favorite Swedish crime fiction story collections An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good and An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed.


Eighty-eight-year-old Maud has lived long enough to know a little something about the importance of defending her peace. Over the years, she's managed to carve out a comfortable life for herself. She lives rent-free in the same sizable Gothenburg apartment she grew up in thanks to a hastily negotiated clause in a seventy-year-old contract, and she isn't about to move, thank you very much!

Maud knows how to take care of her own, namely: herself. When her way of life is threatened, she springs into action to take care of the Problem. There have been a lot of Problems, and more than a few graves dug as a result. So far, she has managed to evade detection. After all, who would suspect a little old lady of being up to no good? Only . . . suspicions are growing that Maud may not be quite as toothless as she appears. With detectives circling, will her luck finally run out?
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