Helene Tursten's An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed
The sequel to An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good is not humorous, but is still entertaining, if in a more uncomfortable way. It finds our 88-year-old protagonist traveling from Sweden to South Africa, reminiscing about some of her past murders (new to the reader) along the way, but then she's just hanging out with a tour group on safari for most of it. Eventually some violence does occur (justified), but the end reeks of white saviour-ness (I don’t know how much of these attitudes are because this is by a Swedish author). I am still kind of rooting for the policewomen to nail her. B+
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book is available now.
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