Maud has done it again! This time she has booked a trip to South Africa to avoid those pesky police questions, and we are treated to some of her reminiscences of her past, and descriptions of her luxury tour. This 89 year old is perfectly healthy, loves gourmet food and wine (and anything else alcoholic) and is a role model for a perfect old age. Minus a few murders, of course. But then again, sometimes you just have to handle problems that crop up.I love Maud, and may there be more stories star...

Certain problems have only one solution. That's just the way it is. Maud, our favorite octogenarian, is back. And she's as ruthless and murderous as she's always been. This time, we follow her as she takes the trip of a lifetime to South Africa. Along the way, she reminisces about her past and all the problems she's had to solve.Honestly, I have so much fun with this series. It's unusual, irreverent, and completely surprising. We've all had experiences where someone's just a thorn in our side

Aptly titled, An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helene Tursten (translated by Marlaine Delargy) is the follow up to An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good by the same author, featuring Maud, the smart, independent, no nonsense octogenarian who you would definitely never want to go up against. (I’m still trying to figure out why I’m so enamored by a character that is so downright scary!) We catch up with Maud a few months after the events in the previous book. She’s on a plane traveling to South A...

I do enjoy author Helene Tursten’s stories about her elderly protagonist, Maud. Her newest work, “An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed” is a compilation of six stories following 89-year-old Maud and her luxury vacation to South Africa. I’ve read one of Tursten’s novels featuring Inspector Irene Huss, which I did enjoy. Well, Tursten includes the intrepid detective at the beginning of the story. I love these two wonderful protagonists pitted against each other. Maud held her ground, yet Huss remai...

An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helen Tursten is a cross between a dark comedy and cozy read, blending in a gratifying read. I'm almost ashamed to say that I was absolutely delighted with this second in the series, starring 89 year old Maud. Be warned that there is violence in these pages. Shame, shame. I forgave myself as I likened it to the comics or cartoons I loved as a child. Somehow I knew this tale though real in its telling was fiction just the same. The hero would inflict bodily

Once I started picturing Maud as a Swedish Betty White, that image was basically stuck there. I can’t tell if that made me like this one more than I would have otherwise, but still a pretty good follow up!*There is definitely is a white savior vibe in the last story and that bothered me. It didn’t ruin the book but I wish it was less heavy-handed.

This is the second book in this series. This time Maud is going on vacation to South Africa. She really needs to get away after being investigated for murder a few months prior. This book wasn't as exciting as the first one, but I still got a kick out of her actions! The ending was a sweet surprise that absolutely loved!

3.5 starsI was surprised by how much I adored eighty-eight-year-old Maude in the 2018 short story collection An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good. The stories were quick, witty, and cozy. The former teacher with a penchant for murder is back with more in An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed. It’s only a few months after the final story in Up to No Good, where an antique dealer met an unfortunate end in Maud’s apartment. With a surprising amount of suspicion falling on the seemingly frail and confused...

An Elderly Lady Must not be Crossed by Helene Tursten, Marlaine Delargy (Translator) is a 2021 Soho Crime publication. Maud is back to regale us with more tales of her murderous escapades…Maud hasn’t necessarily gotten away scot-free from her previous escapades, so she’s decided a little vacation is in order. While traveling to South Africa, Maud recalls, and shares with us, several of her previous interferences in the lives of others, dating back to her childhood. Upon arrival at her destinatio...

Daring, thinking, avenging, deceiving “An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed” by Helene Tursten is a collection of connected short stories that evolve into a cohesive narrative. Maud is almost eighty-nine years old, fit and healthy, with no family, but most importantly, she is a problem solver. She has fake hearing aids that allow her to hear what she is not supposed to hear and enable her to pretend that she did not hear what she actually did. She fakes confusion to cover her clear thinking, expe...

This series is fun, if looking at life through the lens of an octogenarian serial killer can be conceived of as fun. But this volume (much more than the first in the series) goes to great pains to show that her murders are (somewhat)(usually) justified on moral grounds (maybe) or at least gets you rooting for her success. The ending is a little too pat and tied up with a bow, but it was a fun popcorn read.

I wish to thank NetGalley and Highbridge Audio for this audiobook, engagingly narrated by Ann Richardson. I was very pleased to receive 'An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed', having enjoyed the cozy and witty previous book that featured the feisty, sweet but sinister Maud, a lady in her late 80s. The previous book, 'An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good', by Swedish crime writer, Helen Thurston introduced Maud who lived alone and had no hesitation scheming and carrying out murders. Told with wit and

This was the perfect book for me for right now. An entertaining delight in the form of a cozy murderer story—perfectly packaged in a hand-size 4 ¼ x 6 ¼ little hardback.I'm generally a pretty practical person when it comes to problem solving. And I don't spend a lot of time wishing other people punishment let alone death. But the situation in Ukraine has brought up so much grief and a feeling of impotence that I've found myself wishing Putin dead. When I shared this with my best friend, she resp...

3.5 thoughts soon.

“On an evening like this she could almost imagine meeting Jack the Ripper. If I did, he’d be the one who’d make out worse, she thought with a grim smile.” Our killer octogenarian is back. It’s only been a few months since 88-year old Maud has a brush with the police following one of her homicides. They’re still sniffing around and it makes her nervous. Luckily, she has a multi-week trip to Africa to look forward to.On the long journey to Africa, memories from the past start resurfacing…ones t

Everyone's favourite octogenarian killer is back in this new collection of stories by Swedish crime writer Helene Tursten that is sure to have you in stitches. Eighty-eight-year-old Maud is never looking for trouble, but it always seems to find her. Just when she has settled back into her favourite armchair following the tragic and mysterious death of an antiques dealer--in her very own apartment of all places--Gothenburg inspectors Irene Huss and Embla Nystroem return to her doorstep, ruining a...

4 starsThe second book of the Elderly Lady series starring Maud. It appears that murder and mayhem seem to follow Maud. Written in interconnected short stories this book takes Maud to Africa. Detailing her trip, what Maud is running from and the dead people left in her path. Easy reading, entertaining and story perfect as a cunning, mobile, energetic eighty-eight year old terror.

Äldre dam med mörka hemligheter (older lady with dark secrets) is the second collection of short stories about Maude who isn't as fragile and sweet as she seems, if you're not careful you might agitate her and that never ends well for the other person. I didn't enjoy this quite as much as the first collection, but I will re-read this time and time again and I would probably end up loving it's as much. This collection answers some question and follows a slight problem from the first. Definitely r...