"A feisty and funny account of "geri-active" seniors stealing for those in need!"
Reviewed by Audrey Lawrence
Posted December 11, 2017
Mystery
When 79-year-old Martha Andersson tells her four oldest
and dearest friends it is time to go back to their hotel
and recharge their batteries, one never knows if she
means their wheelchair batteries or if it is time for
their afternoon drinks of cloudberry liquor and tasty
snacks. Martha is the feisty mastermind behind the "League of
Pensioners" who had previously pulled off an astonishing
art robbery before skipping across the Atlantic pond to
let things quiet down in Sweden while their hit the
casinos in Los Vegas. Now, after six months, life is
getting a little boring for Martha's fellow pensioners:
Oscar "Brains" Krupp, Bertil "Rake" Engstrӧm, Anna-Greta
Bieke and Christina Åkerblom. This would never do as
their motto Is "if you are bored, you are not living!"
This intrepid League of Pensioners would rather rob banks
to get money to improve the care for geriatric seniors
living in long term care facilities than sit in rocking
chairs and knitting socks. After an unexpected entanglement with some diamond
robbers, the elderly gang of friends decide to capitalize
on events so they can go back to Sweden. Determined not
to sit and end her days in an underfunded care facility,
Martha is definitely the leader who knows her troops well
as she keeps them motivated with the right mixture of
treats and exercises to keep them fit. Can they pull
off another zany crime and not end up in prison for the
rest of their lives? THE LITTLE OLD LADY WHO STRUCK LUCKY AGAIN! Is a
follow-up novel to the internationally acclaimed THE
LITTLE OLD LADY WHO BROKE ALL THE RULES cleverly written
by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg, a Swedish author who had
previously published 16 other books in Sweden in addition
to these two (book is translated into English by Rod
Bradbury from the original Swedish). While the first
book definitely sets the stage, I found THE LITTLE OLD
LADY WHO STRUCK LUCKY AGAIN! also reads nicely as a
standalone story. Martha Andersson is a great character and I took an
instant liking to her as she is both intelligent and
intrepid. There is also a great cast of secondary
characters and I particularly enjoyed reading about how
they developed their relationships with each other.
For me, the best part of THE LITTLE OLD LADY WHO STRUCK
LUCKY AGAIN! Occurs when the five friends show how their
background skills can help them be creative and use
MacGyver know-how in tackling problems and overcoming
challenges. They are particularly funny when they fool
others who are full of stereotypes and prejudices about
elderly people. Still, they also have their senior
memory moments as they leave behind some very important
things in their getaways and they have to resort to more
criminal activities as a result. With her quirky humour and witty comments, Catharina
Ingelman-Sundberg has a winner with THE LITTLE OLD LADY
WHO STRUCK LUCKY AGAIN! Her plot is filled with some
badass characters and enough dicey situations that will
keep you turning the pages to see how this "geri-active"
geriatric gang can handle the action without collapsing.
The romance is slow and there are some predictable spots,
but the action is as hot and fast as a motorcycle gang!
So, get lucky and enjoy a little mayhem with THE LITTLE
OLD LADY WHO STRUCK LUCKY AGAIN!
SUMMARY
In the sequel to internationally-bestselling Swedish author
Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg’s The Little Old Lady Who
Broke All The Rules, the League of Pensioners are up to
their old tricks, this time swindling the biggest Vegas
casinos, outsmarting a gang of young robbers, and evading
the Swedish police in the name of elderly pensioners
everywhere—perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove and The
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas…unless you’re
in the League of Pensioners! Martha Andersson and her friends are at it again. Having
left behind their restrictive senior home in Stockholm, the
gang is off to make it big in the bright lights and big
money of The Strip. Armed with electric wheelchairs and some
well-placed helium balloons, Martha, The Genius, The Rake,
Christina, and Anna-Gretta are ready to take a Vegas casino
for all it’s worth, cashing in on their new favorite
pastime: white collar crime. But they aren’t the only ones looking to outsmart Vegas
security systems. The League finds itself inadvertently
mired in a diamond robbery and face to face with a gang of
young—but dangerous—criminals. Working together they may have gotten the jewels and cash
through airport security, but now that they’re back home
will they be able to outfox the robbers and keep the Swedish
police at bay? Or will this be one heist too many for the
League of Pensioners? This clever, witty, and devilishly fun sequel to The
Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules delights and
probes by turns, and reminds us that we’re never too old for
a little mischief.
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