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    Love Her Madly
    Love Her Madly
    Love Her Madly
    Audiobook9 hours

    Love Her Madly

    Written by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

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    About this audiobook

    A tense, death-row drama—meet brash FBI investigator Poppy Rice in Love Her Madly, the first of a winning new series by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

    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 for not filing the correct paperwork.

    With the reluctant support of her colleague and sometime lover, Joe Barnow, the relentless Poppy reopens the investigation to find out if Rona Leigh deserves to receive a certificate that will read: Death by Legal Homicide as Ordered by the State of Texas.

    Funny and fearless, Poppy Rice is just about unstoppable.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateAug 25, 2005
    ISBN9781596007345
    Love Her Madly
    Author

    Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

    Mary-Ann Tirone Smith is the author of eight novels. She has lived all her life in Connecticut, except for two years when she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon.

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    • 3/5
      It was hard to get into this book. The pacing felt a little slow, and there were a lot of religious discussions that seemed to go on to long. I did like the main character Poppy, and her assistant Delby. I would like to read more about them. The story of Rona Leigh was a little too unbelievable and seemed to serve only as a reason to debate the death penalty and the religious redemption of prisoners. The author seemed to have a low opinion of Texas too. The second half the story started to pick up, but it was a little far fetched that Poppy went into the religious compound. I can't see any respected law enforcement officer acting like she did.