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The little old lady who broke all the rules : a novel [kit] / Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg ; translated from the Swedish by Rod Bradbury.

Ingelman-Sundberg, Catharina, (Author). Bradbury, Rod (Translator).

Summary:

Martha Andersson has had it with the prisonlike atmosphere at Diamond House Retirement Home. Bad food, limited coffee, and no exercise spell trouble for this spry old woman. With the help of a generous supply of cloudberry liqueur, she recruits her friends into forming The League of Pensioners, bent on committing a crime worthy of incarceration. Perhaps most helpful for Martha's purposes: nurse Barbara, the ambitious manager of Diamond House. Barbara has her romantic sights set on Ingmar Mattson, the penny-pinching director of the retirement home, and her eagerness to please him leads to the economizing that pushes Martha and her cronies toward a life of crime in the first place--but when Ingmar sweeps Barbara away, it leaves Martha and her cronies the perfect opportunity to misbehave. Brains sorts out the technical details, while Rake and Christina act as henchmen, and Anna-Greta foots much of the bill. Their victimless jewel and art heists, however, soon implode under a series of unexpected obstacles.

Record details

ISBN: 9780062447975 : PAP
ISBN: 0062447971 : PAP
Physical Description: 12 books (389 pages) in a tote box ; 11 x 15 x 7 + 1 folder.
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: New York : Harper, 2016.
Copyright: ©2012