352 pgs.
2025
Mystery Thriller/CRF
Finished 5/12/2026
Goodreads rating: 4.37
My rating: 5
Setting: small community in Melbourne, Australia (with flashbacks to the 1950s)
Mystery Thriller/CRF
Finished 5/12/2026
Goodreads rating: 4.37
My rating: 5
Setting: small community in Melbourne, Australia (with flashbacks to the 1950s)
My comments: What a wonderful, engrossing novel! The characters were well-written and (mostly) endearing, the story held enough mystery to keep you interested and guessing, and the flipping back in forth in time helped SHOW instead of tell the story. Three cheers!
Goodreads synopsis: 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 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?
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