The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again!

I am ready to join this group!
What a fun ride with 5 Swedish pensioners who have escaped the old folks home by applying skill and intelligence to robbery clothed in a Robin Hood cover.
The previous book set this group of 5 on their way and now they need more money for a pension fund for all of those old folks still left in sub standard nursing and retirement homes.
From the casinos of Las Vegas to the banks and National Museum of Sweden this group of seventy and eighty year olds play Robin Hood.
Their methods are intriguing and the results sometimes hilarious. A fun romp through old age that can teach everyone to respect their elders!
Read as an ARC from LibraryThing.

The sequel to the first book, [b:The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules|19135360|The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules|Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1386053397s/19135360.jpg|21587798], this was a sweet read. A group of retirees, aiming for a life filled with more than cups of tea, and incontinence pads.
This is the sort of book you can curl up on the couch and read for a lazy Sunday afternoon. You won't need tissues, or counselling afterwards. It is a happy, easy, amusing read. But it did make you think about how society treats its elderly.
A healthy cast of characters, with a good gender split, although the main character is Martha, the leader of this merry band of modern day Robin Hoods.
Happy to show more give this book 5 stars.
I highly recommend it. show less

This is the second book in the League of Pensioners series, a fun take on crime as committed by a group of senior citizens. Nordic noir this isn't.

At the end of the first book the group had fled Stockholm in order to lie low after several daring thefts. Spending time in Las Vegas they got an idea to steal from one of the casinos so they they had to leave there. They were homesick so they went back to Sweden with some diamonds they had come across hidden in a cane. Unfortunately they lost the cane (this is a recurring problem for them) and their casino money was soon gone too. And it appeared that most of that had ended up in the hands of a firm of lawyers who were tasked with laundering the money for a police detective who had figured show more out how to scoop the funds. So, of course, the League of Pensioners had to plan another robbery. This time they chose to rob a bank while it was closed. They pulled that off but they knew the money would be traceable so they had to figure out how to exchange it. In the interim the money was stored in two mannequins that had been used in the robbery. In keeping with their usual luck, one of the mannequins was taken by some members of a biker gang who lived next door.

Eventually the group figured out how to get their casino money and their diamonds back but then they had to go into hiding again. This time they stayed in Sweden; no doubt the next book will see them emerge from their hidey-hole again. show less

This book is a sequel to The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules. It continues to follow the League of Pensioners to Las Vegas where they are set up quite nicely in a class hotel. But, as things often do, the group gets bored and plan out several heists. They decide to steal two pieces of art and ransom them back to the museum. They also rob a casino using their zimmer frames (walkers).

These people could be anyone’s grandpa and grandma if it weren’t for Martha Andersson. She masterminds every plan and the others help with implementation. When they find all the monies they have deposited in various charities and nursing homes has not been used as they had stipulated; the group, now called Outlaw Oldies, gains the attention of show more some wanna-be bikers up the hill from their new home back in Sweden.

A visit to the Oldie gang is hysterically written and the book follows in the4 same manner. Geriatric criminals, bikers of little brains and Sweden itself make this a great story for anyone with a sense of humor or who wishes they had one! A bit draggy in places it's a good read! show less

The Little Old Lady Wbo Struck Lucky Again!" A Novel bu Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg was difficult to struggle through. I did enjoy the first 150 pages which were full of humor and unexpected twists but from then on I got very tried of the old people's group goal of being a "reverse Robin Hood. Just when I felt that they surely had enough heists under their belt Margaret, the leader, would be planning another one and then another one.

I enjoyed that the very people who were supposed to be investigaitong her got caught up with the money. I kept hoping for things to change but they didn't. There were some enjoyable quirky characters but after a while, it after robbery after robbery the book continued to the end. I now wish that I have given show more up on the book before it was finished.

I received an Advanced Reading Copy finished this book as a win from Library Thing from the publisher but that in no way determined my thoughts or feelings in this review show less

Book number two in the League of Pensioners series, featuring elderly Martha Anderson and her friends – Brains, Rake, Christina and Anna-Greta. They’ve escaped the nursing home and are living the high life on their ill-gotten gains, but they long for “home.” So, they return to Sweden where they purchase a secluded property where no one will find them. But they discover that their nest egg has gone missing and now they need to plan another robbery so they can continue their mission of improving the lives of the elderly.

The first book was a hoot, and I rather enjoyed the outlandishness of it all. But this one…. Well, it took me over a month to read it because I kept getting bored and putting it aside. It seemed to me that the show more author was just trying too hard to make this a comical crime caper, but it came across as tedious.

I’m crossing the rest of the series off my tbr. show less

I suppose I was expecting a book along the lines of [Sadie Shapiro's Knitting Book]--you know--FUNNY.

Instead I found this book:
Repetitious.
Glamorizing Pollyanna Robin Hood schemes.
Slow.
Completely unrealistic

The only reason for it being on any best seller list is that the author paid for a few chapters to be translated into English, which opened doors.

Older people do deserve better care than they get. But committing crimes to finance that care cannot be funny. And it isn't.

Yet, I kept reading. When the English translation was a bit off (auto correct strikes again?), I still kept reading. So, I bumped my rating up half a star.

The book ended with so many loose ends, a third book could be written from them. Bah....

3.5 stars