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Too Old For This

ISBN 
9780241446935
Format 
Trade Paperback
Recommended Price 
R395.00
Published 
September 2025
About the book: 
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.
 

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