Fitzpatrick is eighty-one, gloriously grumpy, and minding her own business — until a neighbor turns up dead. Because Elsie hasn't always been Elsie. Decades ago, she was Mad Mabel Waller, Australia's youngest convicted murderer. Now the whispers are starting again, and Mabel does what she's always done best: she takes matters into her own hands. Cold-blooded killer, or just someone ready to tell her side of the story? "Sharp, surprising, and wickedly funny."