Reviewed by Kristin
Lottie Jones has gotten away with murder.
Frequently.
Lottie thought her killing days were behind her, until someone
starts digging into her past. Lottie is happier just going to church carry-ins and
buying gifts for her grandchildren. And, maybe her son and
soon-to-be-daughter-in-law will want her to move to their town and babysit the
new baby. But in order to live her best life, she can't let her past catch up
with her. Thus begins a domino effect of people who are getting in the way of
an old woman who knows what she wants and how to get it.
Samantha Downing is rather skilled at making her readers like
characters who seem like they should be unlikeable. Even though Lottie has a
rather warped sense of right and wrong, there were things about her moral
compass that I could totally understand. She had her reasons at the outset of
her killing spree, twisted as they might have been. Lottie is rather brutal in
her murder and body disposal methodology. She has learned quite a few things
over the years.
When an old nemesis appears, Lottie is determined to keep
ahead of investigators old and new. She calls upon her skills, using her
cunning as well as blunt force to stay in control of her life. All she really
wants to do is to live out her years in comfort, and maybe impress the church
ladies a little. Lottie is smart, ruthless, and just getting too old for this.
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