Too Old For This is anther in my pile of mystery novels about elderly women. Again the author, Samatha Downing may just be a little too young to understand that 75 years old is not considered so old these days.
As I get closer to the that age it dos not seem so much like the old ladies I remember as a young person. We are mostly not the old lady stereotype that wears a housecoat all day and walks bent over with a walker.
Lottie Jones is living the quiet life she thought she wanted, bingo at church with friends, her son is getting married for the second time and she has two teenage grand children from her son's first marriage. The past is behind her until one day a young persistent woman rings her doorbell.
Plum Dixon comes calling with a file from Lottie's past, when she was Lorena Mae Lansdale. Plum wants to make a documentary about Lottie and she says help clear her name from the three murders she was accused of killing forty years ago.
When Plum doesn't take a simple no as the answer, Lottie has to take action even though she really does not want ruin her idyllic lifestyle.
This starts Lottie off on a killing spree to cover her tracks. As the list of missing persons grows, Lottie has to be careful not to make a mistake that will lead back to her. This is both a very entertaining look at an elderly woman trying to keep her secret safe and a disturbing story about a woman who kills first and asks questions later.
A funny, macabre novel with a great twist at the end. You are enthralled with Lottie and her friends as they cook together and play bingo . Then you are nervous anxious every time Lottie someone knocks on her front door.
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