{"id":23630,"date":"2026-01-07T07:44:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23630"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:07:14","slug":"book-1-of-52-too-old-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/book-1-of-52-too-old-for-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 1 (of 52) &#8211; Too Old For This"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23631\" style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/toooldforthis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23631\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23631\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/toooldforthis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/toooldforthis.jpg 332w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/toooldforthis-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Too Old For This &#8211; Samantha Downing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When a journalist shows up on her doorstep looking to make a docu-series clearing her name, retiree Lottie Jones has only one option: to kill her and make her disappear.\u00a0 However, this starts the ball rolling, as the police, the journalist&#8217;s boyfriend, and her mother start poking around.\u00a0 Can Lottie pull her fat out of the fire without putting further focus on herself?<\/p>\n<p>Samantha Downing&#8217;s latest, <em>Too Old for This<\/em>, brings her back to my Kindle for the first time since <a href=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/book-27-of-52-my-lovely-wife\/\">2022<\/a>.\u00a0 In this tale, Downing has you pulling for the old lady, even though she really should be the villain of the piece.\u00a0 Given my enjoyment of this book, I can only hope it won&#8217;t be another 3+ years before I come across Downing&#8217;s work again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a journalist shows up on her doorstep looking to make a docu-series clearing her name, retiree Lottie Jones has only one option: to kill her and make her disappear.\u00a0 However, this starts the ball rolling, as the police, the journalist&#8217;s boyfriend, and her mother start poking around.\u00a0 Can Lottie pull her fat out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2889,10093,12236],"class_list":["post-23630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-kindle","tag-samantha-downing","tag-too-old-for-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23658,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23630\/revisions\/23658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}