Requiem for Geraldine Gerbil

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?
KaThunk!
The sound repeated over and over again... not loud... you needed to be close to the house to hear it...