Mother May I — Randye Lordon

A bewildered 92-year-old nursing home patient must know why someone would murder her beloved granddaughter--a rising cartoonist--and why the police believe the killer is the victim's husband, prominent pediatrician Dr. Michael Callahan. As Sydney sets out to prove the good doctor's innocence, Callahan vanishes. Confronting an assortment of unlikely suspects, all of whom fiercely guard a wealth of secrets, Sydney learns that the strength of family ties cannot be broken--not even by murder.