Too Old For This
  • Published: 2 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241446935
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $34.99

Too Old For This

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2 Sep 2025
EBook
28 Aug 2025
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28 Aug 2025
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28 Sep 2025
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It turns out old people don't just solve murders... A razor-sharp new thriller from the author of the Sunday Times bestselling R&J pick, My Lovely Wife

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…
  • Published: 2 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241446935
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Samantha Downing

Samantha Downing was born in the Bay Area, and currently lives in New Orleans. 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. Amazon Studios and Nicole Kidman's Blossom Films have partnered to produce a feature film based on the novel.

Her second novel, He Started It, was also a Sunday Times bestseller and her third novel, For Your Own Good, will soon be adapted for HBO Max by Robert Downey Jr. and Greg Berlanti.

Also by Samantha Downing

A Twisted Love Story
For Your Own Good
He Started It
My Lovely Wife
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Praise for Too Old For This

Praise for Samantha Downing

Original, dark and highly addictive

Alice Feeney

A brilliant psychological black comedy with a really fresh feel, packed with sly observation and outrageous twists

Daily Mail

A story that is dark as night, sinister as hell, clever, twisting and downright fun

Chris Whitaker

Fans of Gone Girl and Big Little Lies will love this fast-paced thriller

Sunday Express
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