Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth

There are two kinds of people no one ever expects to be murderers: little girls and old ladies. Meet Mad Mabel.

Pull up a chair by the window. This one’s a keeper.

Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick is eighty-one years old. She’s lived on her idyllic street, Kenny Lane, for sixty years—longer than anyone else. A curmudgeon who minds everyone else’s business, Elsie seems harmless enough. But few would suspect she’s spent a lifetime concealing a past she’d rather keep buried. Because when it comes to murder, no one ever suspects little girls or old ladies. And Elsie, once a little girl and now an old lady, has a strange history of people in her life coming to a foul end.

Then a new little girl moves in. Talkative. Curious. Nosy. She stops at nothing to befriend Elsie, and slowly, the secrets of the past begin to surface.

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?

Told with all the twists, humor, charm, and heart that have made Sally Hepworth a beloved storyteller, this novel weaves past and present together—through justice and redemption, all the way to its stunning conclusion.

It’s the kind of read that begs for a rainy afternoon and a second cup of tea. You’ll turn the pages faster than the tide comes in.

A new hardcover release, waiting to be discovered on our shelves—just steps from the salty air of the cove. Come linger a while. We think you’ll want to take this one home.

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