Love Her Madly

✍ Scribed by Smith, Mary-Ann Tirone

• Book ID: 108372910
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 235 KB
• Series: Poppy Rice 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781466873179

✦ Synopsis

A tense, death-row drama--meet brash FBI investigator Poppy Rice in the first of a winning new series
Poppy Rice is home in her D.C. apartment with very little furniture and lots of boxes she still hasn't unpacked after five years. It's three a.m. and she's suffering from her usual insomnia. While polishing her nails, she watches a tape of the CBS Evening News- Dan Rather is interviewing convicted ax-murderer Rona Leigh Glueck. In ten days, Rona Leigh will be the first woman executed in Texas since the Civil War. Poppy pauses the tape on a close-up of Rona Leigh's small, delicate hands. Okay, she thinks, so maybe it was a lightweight ax.
Poppy digs out Rona Leigh's case file to find-along with the grisly crime-scene photos-a physician's testimony that glee, not muscle, gave her the strength to commit the crime. When her public defender asked the crime lab for help determining whether such a small woman could physically commit these murders, he was turned away...