An elderly lady must not be crossed / Helene Tursten ; translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy.
Language: English Original language: Swedish Series: Elderly lady. 2 Publication details: New York, NY : Soho Crime, 2021.Description: 255 pages : illustrations ; 16 cmISBN:- 9781641291675
- 1641291672
- Criminal investigations -- Fiction
- Death -- Fiction
- Older people -- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery stories, Swedish -- Translations into English
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery
- FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
- FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor
- Short stories
- Detective and mystery stories
- Short stories
- Older women -- Fiction
- Göteborg (Sweden) -- Fiction
- 839.73/8 23
- PT9876.3.U55 A79313 2021
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Short stories | TUR | Elderly Bk.2 | Available | 063554 |
"Just when things have finally cooled down for 88-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her doorstep, ruining a perfectly good afternoon. Though Maud deftly dodges their questions with the skill of an Olympic gymnast a fifth of her age, she wonders if suspicion has fallen on her, little old lady that she is. The truth is, ever since Maud was a girl, death has seemed to follow her. In these six interlocking stories, memories of unfortunate incidents from Maud's past keep bubbling to the surface, each triggered by something around her: an image, a word-even a taste. Meanwhile, certain Problems in the present require immediate attention. Luckily, Maud is no stranger to taking matters into her own hands . . . even if it means she has to get a little blood on them in the process"--