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KAREN’S BOOK REVIEW

Mad Mabel

★★★★★

Reviewed July 24, 2026 · Mystery & Thriller

For more than sixty years, Elsie Fitzpatrick has lived on this small, quiet street where neighbors look out for one another almost as often as they complain. Now eighty-one, Elsie is perpetually grumpy, fiercely private, and perfectly content keeping to herself. Then Persephone arrives. Precocious, persistent, and only seven, Persephone decides that Elsie…

Published by St. Martin’s Press

Happy reading,
Karen