Mad Mabel
A Recipe for Ashes, a Husband’s Confession, and One Woman’s Gentle WarBy Marcus Aldene Cole
Length1h
About this audiobook
Mabel Cole has been the perfect wife for a quarter century. She hosts the dinner parties, tends the garden, and swallows her questions when her husband comes home late smelling of unfamiliar perfume. But when she discovers a burned hotel receipt in his jacket pocket, she stops asking. She starts planning. She has ninety days until their twenty-fifth anniversary party, and she intends to serve him a meal he will never forget.
Her husband Paul thinks she is invisible. He thinks she is too busy vacuuming to notice the credit card statements, the secret phone calls, the young woman named Brianna who answers his late-night texts with heart emojis. But Mabel has been watching. She has a lockbox full of evidence, a burner phone, and a timeline written in a floral notebook. She does not want to destroy him. She wants him to destroy himself, piece by piece, confession by confession, in front of everyone who ever believed his lies.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Psychology
Length1 hr
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 25, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Prologue – The Sugar Bowl
3Part One – The Good Wife's Calendar Chapter 1 – Monday, 6:48 AM
4Chapter 2 – Monday, 10:14 AM
5Chapter 3 – Monday, 2:37 PM
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6Chapter 4 – Monday, 6:02 PM
7Part Two – Stains and Silences Chapter 5 – Tuesday, 6:33 AM
8Chapter 6 – Tuesday, 9:15 AM
9Chapter 7 – Wednesday, 3:00 PM
10Chapter 8 – Thursday, 4:15 PM
11Chapter 9 – Friday, 7:45 AM
12Part Three – The Garden She Buried Chapter 10 – Saturday, 8:00 AM
13Chapter 11 – Saturday, 1:30 PM
14Chapter 12 – Sunday, 10:00 AM
15Chapter 13 – Sunday, 11:45 PM
16Part Four – Receipts, Redacted Chapter 14 – Monday, 9:00 AM
17Chapter 15 – Monday, 2:00 PM
18Chapter 16 – Tuesday, 6:00 PM
19Chapter 17 – Wednesday, 10:00 AM
20Part Five – The Dinner Party Chapter 18 – Saturday, 6:00 PM
21Chapter 19 – Saturday, 7:45 PM
22Chapter 20 – Saturday, 9:30 PM
23Epilogue – Sunday, 7:00 AM
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