What Fiction are you reading this week, April 28, 2024?

[MontanaMama]

12. An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good

By Helen Thurston. This a wee little book containing short stories about an old woman with no family or friends who doesn’t mind a little murder here and there if it keeps her tidy little life the way she wants it. I thought I’d feel a little badly about her offing people when they became inconvenient but oddly, I didn’t.

Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder.

Over the course of her adventures - or misadventures - this little bold lady will handle a crisis with a local 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 dead body found in Maud's apartment, will Maud finally become a suspect?