Too Old For This (September 2025, Paperback, 400 pg) Samantha Downing

It’s never too late to teach an old woman new murders…a razor-sharp, edge-of-your-seat new thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Samantha Downing.

Samantha Downing’s signature dark humour is cranked up to one hundred in TOO OLD FOR THIS, a whip smart story about a geriatric serial killer who simply wants to enjoy weekly bingo games at church and gossiping with her friends about their children’s love lives.

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Samantha Downing

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Description

You’d never guess Lottie Jones had skeletons in her closet.
She’s lived in town for decades now. She’s getting older. She lives for the simple pleasures of weekly bingo games at church, and gossiping with her friends about their children’s love lives.
But when investigative journalist Plum Dixon shows up on her doorstep asking questions about Lottie’s past, and specifically about her connection to numerous unsolved murders, well, Lottie just can’t have that.
But getting away with murder is hard enough when you’re young. And when Lottie receives another annoying knock on the door, she realises this crime might just be the death of her…
About the author: Samantha Downing currently lives in the Bay Area. Her debut novel,  My Lovely Wife,  was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick and a  Sunday Times  bestseller, and has been published in thirty languages. It won a Dead Good Reader Award, and was shortlisted for four other major awards: The CWA John Creasey Dagger, The Edgar Award for Best First Novel, The ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel and The Macavity Award for Best First Mystery. Her second novel, He Started It, was also a  Sunday Times  bestseller. She has also written  For Your Own Good  and  A Twisted Love Story.