Mabel Gets The Ax

Mabel plans to bring the thrills of volunteering to the masses-if she doesnt get the ax first.After losing her job of twenty-three years Mabel decides to launch what will surely be a glamorous new career as an author. Having recently inherited her late grandmothers house she has the freedom to spend time volunteering and writing about her experiences.Unfortunately Mabels plans soon go off the rails. Her inheritance comes with decades of clutter an overgrown lot a dog named Barnacle and a neighbor with an ax to grind. And her first assignment as a Medicine Spring Historical Society volunteer is to lead a tour of the Sauer Mansion locally known as the Ax Murder House site of a notorious 1930s double homicide. As Mabel shepherds her tour group through the house it appears historys repeating itself when she stumbles across a body in the parlor. Finding herself on the suspect list Mabel scrambles to figure out who swung the fatal ax. In the process she cant help being drawn into investigating the unsolved historic murders teamed up with PI John Bigelow a man she isnt sure she can trust. With an ax murderer on the loose will Mabel be next?