A retired serial killer’s quiet life is upended by an unexpected visitor. To protect her secret, there’s only one option left—what’s another murder? From bestselling author Samantha Downing.
Lottie Jones thought her crimes were behind her.
Decades earlier, she changed her identity and tucked herself away in a small town. Her most exciting nights are the weekly bingo games at the local church and gossiping with her friends.
When investigative journalist Plum Dixon shows up on her doorstep asking questions about Lottie’s past and specifically her involvement with numerous unsolved cases, 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 realizes this crime might just be the death of her…
This ended up being a really fun book to listen to. The audiobook (I’m really getting into this whole audiobook thing) narrator was awesome. She had a wonderful cadence and for a while it was like Lottie herself was getting annoyed about all these people at her door.
I really liked listening from a criminal perspective, the sort of “I know other people would react differently, but if I was her I would kill her” mentality that made me laugh. There was a comedic tilt to the whole thing, what with the 75 year old grandma serial killer thing. It was delightful to hear her take advantage of her age by pretending to be more infirm than she was.
The mystery isn’t who killed Plum. It’s how the fuck do these people keep coming and how do we stop them.
I actually was happy for the end. “How will people remember me?” And so she decided to take advantage of the lessons she learned (it is far too much trouble to kill people at her age) and try to do something good. In a way. “It’s crime-adjacent”, she said. This is a lady who gets her kicks trolling people and calling back telemarketers.
