When acclaimed children's author Daffy O'Hanlon is murdered in the front door of her northern Virginia home everyone is a suspect, including her family. Detectives Drury Metzinger and Leslie Givens discover that the Geraldine Gerbil books are adored but Ms. O'Hanlon has a lot of enemies. Nosy neighbors, unmet obligations, and destructive family secrets reveal motives everywhere but whodunnit?