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Fiction featuring Care Experience
Too Old For This
Samantha Downing
2025
Too Old For This (2025) by American writer Samantha Downing tells the story of a retired female serial killer, Lottie Jones, who comes out of retirement when she receives an unexpected visit.
Plum Dixon is a documentary film maker who visits Lottie Jones one day with the intention of making a docuseries about Lottie Jones who, Plum thinks, was “wrongfully accused of a crime” (Downing, 5).
Except that Lottie wasn’t “wrongfully accused” and because she doesn’t want the truth coming out now, she kills Plum.
We find out that Plum Dixon grew up in kinship care, her mother didn’t want to raise her. However, her mother becomes involved in the search for Plum’s killer.
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