![]() ![]() In An Elderly Lady Up To No Good, Helene Tursten takes pettiness to a new level. Maud has a plan for her, just like she does for any other would-be source of mild frustration in her life. An annoying celebrity neighbor is nosing around and hoping to buy Maud’s apartment? No big deal. ![]() She loves her hermetic lifestyle and will do anything to maintain it, including disposing of folks who get in the way. Meet Maud, an irascible 88-year old woman leading a solitary life without family, friends, or, it seems, any qualms with committing murder. The protagonist of Helene Tursten’s darkly comedic new book of stories, An Elderly Lady is Up To No Good, for example, does not play by those rules. ![]() Murder is an emphatic deed, and most murderers act according to deeply rooted, complex motivations. ![]()
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