Maud can be an irascible eighty-eight-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and . no qualms in regards to a small murder. This funny, irreverent tale collection by Helene Tursten, writer of the Irene Huss Analysis series, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way towards the retirement home.

Ever since her darling father’s untimely death when she was just eighteen, Maud has lived in the family’s spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent- on the subject of An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good free, thanks to a minor clause inside a hastily negotiated agreement. That was how Maud found that good things will come from tragedy. Now in her past due eighties, Maud items herself with vacationing the world and surfing the net from your convenience of her father’s historic armchair. It’s a solitary existence, and she loves it that way.

Over the course of her adventures-or misadventures-this little bold female will handle a crisis with an area celebrity who has her eyes on Maud’s apartment, foil the engagement of her long-ago lover, and dispose of some pesky neighbors. But when the local authorities are called to investigate a inactive body within Maud’s apartment, will Maud finally become a suspect?