By Samantha Downing – Berkley, 2025
Lottie Jones is a 75-year-old woman living a quiet life in an Oregon cottage. She enjoys playing bingo at church, gossiping with friends and spending time with her son and grandchildren—she’s content with her life. But she’s living under an assumed name and a big secret: Lottie is a retired serial killer who was suspected of killing three people decades ago. Her name was splashed across tabloids, and she became a local pariah, but she was never arrested or convicted. She successfully sued the city for damaging her reputation, then took her substantial payout, changed her identity and started over.
Lottie’s quiet life is disrupted when investigative journalist Plum Dixon shows up at her door, hoping to produce a documentary that sets the record straight about those unsolved murders. Lottie does not want a show done about her—so she decides the only solution is to kill Plum. What ensues is a dark comedy of an older killer trying to get away with murder in a modern world with technology and forensics that she didn’t have to contend with decades ago. Will she get away with it—and should she?
