A review by rkw25
The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo

4.0

This book kept showing up this summer on lists of mysteries about older women. Hornclaw is 65, feeling her age, and considering her life lived as an assassin. Action-packed alternating with remembrances, vivid (could easily be a movie), funny, about one woman's continuing fight for agency. Her dog, her mentor, others at her workplace, and her doctor play important roles. This is the first of this South Korean author's novels to be translated into English; she is widely published in Korean. (I have to admit I also liked the smaller size of this book--7" x 5.5", rather than the standard 9" x 6".)