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Too Old for This- Geriatric serial killers rock!

Too Old for This by Samantha Downing

March 25, 2026 by NatteringwPride 2 Comments

Lottie Jones thought her crimes were behind her. Decades earlier, she changed her identity and tucked herself away in a small town. Her most exciting nights are the weekly bingo games at the local church and gossiping with her friends.  When investigative journalist Plum Dixon shows up on her doorstep asking questions about Lottie’s past and specifically her involvement with numerous unsolved cases, well, Lottie just can’t have that. But getting away with murder is hard enough when you’re young. And when Lottie receives another […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: Samantha Downing

NatteringwPride's CBR18 Review No:24 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: Samantha Downing ·
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So many characters die in this book!

For Your Own Good by Samantha Downing

March 29, 2022 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

This is one of those books that I randomly saw on the list of available mystery / suspense / thriller audiobooks list at my library.  I usually just search for audiobooks that are in English, “Available now”, and fall into the horror, mystery, suspense, or thriller categories.  Those are my preferred genres of books.  I’ll also throw in some science fiction, but that’s neither here nor there.  Sometimes I feel like I get on a streak of crappy or boring books with this random approach […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: murder, poison, Samantha Downing, teachers

kfishgirl's CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: murder, poison, Samantha Downing, teachers ·
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Always fun to read a thriller while camping

My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing

Watching You by Lisa Jewell

November 5, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

(3 stars) My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing Okay honestly, this book was batshit crazy. But I downloaded it for free from the library because I needed something on my e-reader that I could read after dark, and I finished the whole thing in one evening. It’s bonkers, and I did find the ending rather unsatisfying (which is why I only gave it three stars). But it also entertained the hell out of me for the few hours it took to read. “My name is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: badkittyuno, Lisa Jewell, Samantha Downing

badkittyuno's CBR11 Review No:213 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: badkittyuno, Lisa Jewell, Samantha Downing ·
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