Sally Hepworth | Mad Mabel

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Wed Apr 29 2026 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

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Quail Ridge Books | Raleigh, NC

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

TICKETS REQUIRED. Tickets include a copy of Mad Mabel and guaranteed entry to the event. Sally will be in conversation with Diane Chamberlain will sign books after the program.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

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

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 M**der, 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?
Told with Sally Hepworth's twists, humor, charm, and heart, MAD MABEL is novel that weaves past and present together--through the power of justice and redemption, and all the way to its stunning conclusion.



ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SALLY HEPWORTH has lived around the world, spending extended periods in Singapore, the United Kingdom and Canada. She is the author of The Secrets of Midwives, The Things We Keep, The Mother's Promise, The Family Next Door, The Mother-in-Law, The Good Sister, The Younger Wife, and The Soulmate.

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