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“she allowed people to act in accordance with their own preconceptions”

An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good (Elderly Lady, #1) by Helene Tursten

July 17, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

I definitely want more from Maud, the old lady who never met a problem she couldn’t just casually murder. I had this out from my library so long they charged me for a replacement copy, which is dumb of me because it’s the world’s shortest read. I finished it off in less than two hours. (Don’t worry, I returned it, and me and the library are all good now.) It is seriously a teeny little book, like five inches tall and three inches wide. A […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Short Stories Tagged With: an elderly lady is up to no good, Helene Tursten, narfna, short stories, Swedish, swedish crime, translated

narfna's CBR14 Review No:107 · Genres: Mystery, Short Stories · Tags: an elderly lady is up to no good, Helene Tursten, narfna, short stories, Swedish, swedish crime, translated ·
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And then there’s Maud.

An Elderly Lady is Up to Not Good by Helen Tursten

October 14, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This a little collection of short stories by the Danish mystery and crime writer Helene Tursten. I haven’t read any of her novels, but she’s published about 10 or so in two different series, which apparently converge here a little with the two different detectives both being small characters in these stories. We find ourselves in a small apartment building that some seventy years ago there was a contract written where the single widowed occupant with her two young daughter would be allowed to live […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: an elderly lady is up to no good, Helene Tursten

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:567 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: an elderly lady is up to no good, Helene Tursten ·
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