When acclaimed children's author Daffy O'Hanlon is murdered in the front door of her northern Virginia home, everyone is suspect, including her family.
Detectives Drury Metzinger and Leslie Givens discover that the popular Geraldine Gerbil books are adored but Mrs. O'Hanlon has a lot of enemies.
A slow burn murder mystery of too many suspects and not enough evidence. Nosey neighbors, unmet obligations, and destructive family secrets reveal motives everywhere, but who whodunnit? Detectives Metzinging and Givens are at it again solving murder in the Washington D.C. metro area.