![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a vocation Maude is very good at, since her murders tend to be mistaken for accidents, and if there is any suspicion about the death, she is a master at playing the doddering fool-confused, hard of hearing, slow of foot. From the outside, Maude appears to be nothing more than an independent 88-year-old woman-she enjoys traveling alone, watching television, and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds is her favorite film-but when her solitary and quiet life is threatened by noise, or someone is after her lovely apartment, her response is always murder. Maude is a retired school teacher who lives, rent free and alone, in the same apartment where she was raised. An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good, by Swedish author Helene Tursten, is a criminally brilliant, if too brief, collection of five tales about the murderous adventures of Maude. ![]()
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