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BOOK INFO

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BOOK BLURB

Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick is eighty-one years old. She’s lived on her idyllic street, Kenny Lane, for sixty years–longer than anyone else. Aside from being a curmudgeon who minds everyone else’s business, few would suspect that Elsie has a past that she has worked exceedingly hard at concealing. Because when it comes to murder, no one ever suspects little girls or old ladies. And Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick, once a little girl and now an old lady, has a strange history of people in her life coming to a foul end.

When a new little girl (talkative, curious, nosy) moves into the neighborhood and stops at nothing to befriend Elsie, her carefully-constructed life threatens to come crashing down as the secrets in Elsie’s past start coming to light. Who was “Mad Mabel” fifty years ago? Who is Elsie Fitzpatrick today? And if the past has a habit of repeating itself, who has the most to lose?

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MY REVIEW

Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick is 81 years old, and has been called ‘Mad Mabel’ since she was a child. Now she is a grumpy old woman, and a new girl in the neighborhood befriends Elsie.

Mad Mabel is a character driven novel set around Elsie/Mabel. Told with alternating timelines, the reader gets Elsie’s story from her childhood and adulthood. When a neighbor is found dead, suspicions once again surround Elsie.

While an interesting book, Mad Mabel is light on the suspense in this domestic suspense novel. Good for readers who enjoy slow burning character studies.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.