An 81-year-old neighborhood curmudgeon befriends a curious girl, risking long-buried secrets in this witty, heartfelt mystery.
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An 81-year-old neighborhood curmudgeon befriends a curious girl, risking long-buried secrets in this witty, heartfelt mystery.
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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 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...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Adult relationships, some nudity; assault and predatory behavior referenced
Violence & gore
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Murders, blood, gun violence, and multiple suspicious deaths drive the plot
Profanity
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Occasional strong and vulgar language throughout
Substance use
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No evidence found in available sources
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Brief anti-gay comments; pair wrongly assumed to be lovers
Religious content
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No evidence found in available sources
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Recurring themes of stigma, injustice, and victim-blaming
Self-harm / suicide
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Parental suicide mentioned in backstory; not depicted on-page
Abuse & suffering
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Child abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, bullying, parental cruelty
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