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Friday, June 17, 2022

A Must Read!

I’ve just finished the most enjoyable book: An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helene Tursten. The humor is wonderfully dry and the protagonist is a major treat.
Don’t let her age fool you. Maud may be nearly ninety, but if you cross her, this elderly lady is more sinister than sweet.

In these six interlocking stories, memories of unfortunate incidents from Maud’s past keep bubbling to the surface. 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.

*Includes cookie recipes*

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Maud’s victims always earn their respective fates, whether it's death or something slightly less final. She isn’t a killer so much as a creative problem solver.
Sometimes a person had to do certain things in order to survive the hard life of a single woman with a heavy burden of responsibility to bear.
TRUTH!

Our hero plays the delicate, elderly woman card when necessary and/or expeditious and I’m totally here for it. In this often heartless world, I too have found it beneficial to occasionally amplify my lack of hearing, wonk-ass balance and relative fragility. I was most def cheering her on—Yeah, work it Maud!

Cake finds my taste in literature suspect.
I’m reminded, a little bit, of the show Dexter.
The show follows the life of Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a Miami Metro Police Department blood pattern analyst with a double life. While investigating murders in the homicide division, Dexter hunts and kills murderers who have escaped the justice system. (source)
Except Dexter was, as best as I can recall, a lot more bloody (grizzly even) and the deservedly murdered were offed in a rather sadistic fashion.

I prefer cozy, clean retribution, thank you.

An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed is the follow up to An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good. I didn’t know that Must Not Be Crossed is a sequel and now need to track down Up to No Good.

I'd love to see this as a teevee show starring Helen Mirren, Glenn Close or, best yet, zombie Betty White. She'd be perfect for the part!

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