A granny with a dark past

LOTTIE Jones is not your average grandmother.

- LIESL VAN DER SCHYFF

She goes to church, plays bingo and complains about her aching joints like everyone else in her small town, but she is also a retired serial killer, and when a journalist knocks on her door with questions about unsolved murders, Lottie fiends herself dragged back into a life she thought she had left behind.

That is the hook of Samantha Downing's latest thriller, Too Old for This and it is every bit of outrageous as it sounds.

She has already built a reputation for clever thrillers and here she tries something riskier mixing dark humour with murder.