Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth
Summary (from the publisher): Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick is eighty-one years old. She's lived on her idyllic street 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 she's 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. Review: Thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley of an ARC of this book! Despite her popularity, I have never read a Sally Hepworth novel before but understood that she wrote thrillers. I wasn't sure what to expect from this book but certainly did not expect a heart-warming redemption story that follows 81-year-old Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick. Little do Elsie's neighbors know, but she has a very tormented past. For most of her life, those she lov...