Mad Mabel
*Chef’s kiss* to what I think is Sally Hepworth’s best novel yet! Eighty-one-year old Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick is living a quiet life on Kenny Lane with an assortment of neighbors. A curmudgeon on the outside, she’s not afraid to voice her very unfiltered and often hilarious opinions about anything, including Nugget, her neighbor’s yappy dog, or Persephone, the persistent 7-year-old little girl who really wants her attention! When one of her neighbors is found dead under unclear circumstances, ghosts arise from Elsie’s past when she was known as ‘Mad Mabel’ Waller, the youngest convicted murderer in Australia. As the news questions her potential involvement, two YouTube vloggers, Libby Conquest and Adeem Anand give Elsie an opportunity to share the truth about those long ago events on their AdLib channel. What will “Mabel” reveal? I’ll let you discover the rest for yourself, since this is such a good novel to unpack! I do want to say that this is NOT an old lady serial kill...
