Sunday 30 July 2017

The little old lady behaving badly by Catharena Ingleman-Sundberg

"The little old lady behaving badly" by Catharena Ingleman-Sundberg. 
This book is published by PanMacmillan UK in 2017 and has 352 pages. This is Book 3 of Little old lady series.

After a new bank robbery the oldies decide to lie low. Brains wants to get married to Martha, but she keeps postponing the wedding on one pretext or other. They decide to open a restaurant for old people. Detective Blombai has retried but has not given up on the oldies. Martha wants to score big. 
Will they retrieve the money hidden in drain pipe in Book 1? Will Brains and Martha marry? Will they pull the big score?

Oldies still harbour the wish to steal large amount and use it for the welfare of the aged and the under paid old age home staff. Small time bank robberies are not enough. They form an offshore company in West Indies. 

The big score comes in the form of a yacht but author has allocated relatively less pages for it. This is the flaw. 

Within the oldies, there is a slight division of men Vs women. Martha's procrastination of marriage is greeting inn to Brains' nerves. Author has got rid of the character of Gunar, who was an important character in Book 2 and completed the third pair. To complete the third pair, Blombai joins the oldies. 

The story drifts along without any apparent purpose or direction. This new venture of oldies, restaurant on a barge, takes up a lot of space in this story with little value addition. In general the reader starts getting bored and becomes tired of repetition and lack of substance. Reader eagerly awaits to see the end of book. 

It's not known if the series will continue. If there is Book 4, I am not sure whether I will read it. 

Why did I read this book? I have read the first two books.    
What I didn't like?  Lack of story, repetition. 
What did I like?  Umm... 

Give it a miss. 


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