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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 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. In fact, she's already on to her next case-Smith is currently at work on the second novel in this smart new series.
- Sales Rank: #3132751 in Books
- Published on: 2002-01-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.68" h x 1.13" w x 6.22" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
Amazon.com Review
In this terrific thriller, Poppy Rice, director of the FBI's crime lab, reinvestigates the case of an unlikely young female killer on death row in Texas. Poppy's puzzled that the jury accepted evidence that an 88-pound drug addict could murder two people with an ax, based on the testimony of a quack. But she's working against the clock (the execution of Rona Leigh Glueck, now a saintly and eloquent born-again Christian, is rapidly approaching) and against a network of good old boys, including the governor, who aren't eager to see the evidence reexamined. Though Poppy (whom some readers may remember as a sidekick in Mary-Ann Smith's An American Killing) is whip-smart and tenacious as an alligator, she can't get a stay of execution.
But Rona Leigh manages to cheat death dramatically: she survives Texas's lethal-injection cocktail and escapes, with the help of a rebel preacher and his group of New Shakers, who believe she's the second coming of Christ. Now Poppy's task is threefold: find Rona Leigh Glueck, find out how she survived, and find out if she's innocent. Smith's pacing and plot development are subtly perfect, and she renders just enough of Poppy's personal life to make her interestingly enigmatic. Good news: Love Her Madly is the first in a series. --Barrie Trinkle
From Publishers Weekly
In the first installment in a slick new series, the versatile Smith (author of four literary novels and the quality suspense tale An American Killing) introduces Poppy Rice, FBI agent and brassy gal all around, who blusters her way into a capital punishment case obviously inspired by that of real-life convicted killer Karla Faye Tucker, executed a few years ago. Rona Leigh Glueck awaits the execution chamber, "about to be the first woman put to death by the people of Texas since the Civil War," but Poppy deduces that Ms. Glueck's wrists were too dainty to have wielded a heavy ax in a double homicide. In a book long on hokey Texas dialogue (" `You learn anything a-tall in FBI school, ma'am?' ") but short on descriptive narrative, the reader misses a sense of place, but the plot drives along nicely, which is the novel's saving grace. Having turned to Jesus in prison, Rona Leigh seems to await chemical death with equanimity. For reasons that are unclear, a Catholic cardinal offers to be her death row spiritual counselor. While Rona Leigh may have been a loose woman and a liar, many now see her as an angel. Poppy believes that Rona Leigh didn't receive a fair trial, but the obstacles to reopening the case are daunting. The governor has promised himself, and his public, that this woman will die. The action builds to a surprising if implausible climax in the death house that should please most readers. Smith may be no Patricia Cornwell when it comes to detailing investigative work, but she knows how to tell a suspenseful story in an easy, colloquial voice women readers especially will appreciate. Author tour.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
In a fit of insomnia, FBI investigator Poppy Rice watches a videotape of Dan Rather interviewing self-confessed ax murderer Rona Leigh Glueck and realizes that her hands are too small and delicate to have wielded the weapon. A quick look through Rona Leigh's case file reveals that the FBI has refused a request from her attorney for forensic tests that may have helped her case. With only ten days to the execution, Poppy flies from Washington, DC, to Texas to ask the governor for a delay so that the courts can determine whether Rona Leigh received a fair trial. What strikes her is Rona Leigh's lack of enthusiasm for any reprieve; she insists that she has found God and is meant to die by lethal injection. When the execution goes awry, and the prisoner is liberated by members of a cult that believes she is the "Sister of Christ," Poppy must race against the clock to find Rona Leigh before the Texas Rangers do. This first in a series of Poppy Rice novels is gripping, unpredictable, and laugh-out-loud funny. Poppy is delightful, smart, sassy, tough, and unstoppable, and the supporting characters are all colorful. Smith (An American Killing) has written a winner. Highly recommended for public libraries.
- Karen Anderson, Quarles & Brady/Streich Lang, Phoenix
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A psychological thriller based on fact + a super savvy protagtonist = an unbeatable combo!
By Jana L.Perskie
"Love Her Madly" marks author Mary-Ann Tirone Smith's first foray into the adventures of protagonist Poppy (Penelope) Rice, FBI agent, super smart, independent, sassy, savvy, professional 21st century lady that she is. Says Ms. Smith, "The women in my books have lives that simply aren't ordinary. They don't take crap from anyone. This makes them interesting." Poppy has recently been promoted to the directorship of the FBI's new crime lab in Washington, DC, but she prefers to work in the field rather than the office or laboratory. Her boss, appreciative of her talents, accommodates her whenever possible.
When Poppy is up late one night, coping with her chronic insomnia by watching taped news broadcasts on her VCR, she hears Dan Rather interviewing Rona Leigh Glueck, a woman condemned to die by lethal injection in just ten days. Glueck will become the first woman executed by the State of Texas since the Civil War. She readily confesses to having participated, along with her boyfriend, in the brutal ax murder of two adults while high on drugs and who knows what else.
When Poppy notices that the condemned woman is a 90 pound weakling with small delicate wrists, she wonders how the woman could have heaved that ax so many times. Agent Bright receives permission from her boss to travel to Texas and become a temporary "full-time pseudo-district attorney." And thus begins our entertaining, fast-paced tale.
Apparently Rona Leigh was born again on death row and is ready to return to Jesus. At the time of her conviction, seventeen years before, she had just turned seventeen herself, was a drug addict, an alcoholic, a prostitute (had been a child prostitute), and suffered from malnutrition. Poppy uncovers evidence which makes it obvious that the doomed woman did not receive a fair trial. In fact, some of the evidence presented by the prosecution was just plain laughable. And no one paid much attention to the objections and appeals of the defense attorney.
Mary-Ann Tirone Smith frequently writes about injustices suffered, especially by poor women denied choices in life. Says Ms. Smith, "as an FBI agent, Poppy is the first of my characters who has the official capacity to treat injustice and the means to do so at her fingertips and she takes to the task with a vengeance. As Poppy might put it: 'If I'm not outraged at least once a day, bury me. I'm dead.'"
This story is based on the case of Karla Fay Tucker, killed by lethal injection, (legal homicide), on February 3, 1998 by the State of Texas. She was a born-again Christian convicted of the ax murder of two people and the first woman to be executed by Texas since the 1860's. The Texas clemency board follows no written criteria, is not required to meet in person, and hasn't granted anyone clemency in many years. One of the more bizarre Texas laws deprives a prisoner from having his case reopened once thirty days have passed since the conviction. No exceptions!
Before Tucker was executed, there were appeals for clemency from Waly Bacre Ndiaye, the United Nations commissioner on summary and arbitrary executions, the World Council of Churches, Pope John Paul II, and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, among other world figures. Unusual appeals came from conservative American political figures such as Newt Gingrich and Pat Robertson, interceding on her behalf. Tucker did not ask for a pardon, only commutation of her death sentence to life in prison. Huntsville Prison's warden testified that she was a model prisoner and that, after 14 years on death row, she likely had been reformed. Despite these pleas, then Govenor George W.Bush signed her death warrant. (above information from Wikipedia.com)
This suspense thriller is not written to make a case against capital punishment, however. Nor is it predictable. There are some interesting and unexpected twists and turns in the storyline. Oddly, with such a dark topic, the humor is outstanding. I found myself laughing out loud at some of the snappy dialogue. Really good satire! Recommended!
JANA
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Great book....poor background
By A Customer
I really, really liked this book. I found it interesting, though it did remind me of Karla Faye Tucker. I did have a few problems with the author's background work. It's bad form not to verify your facts. I am from Central Texas (and I agree with everything the reviewer from Huntsville said). Houston to Gatesville is a 3 and half hour drive - on a good day. But what disturbed me the most is it's obvious the author didn't even consult a map. It is impossible to drive thru Flat or Fort Hood from Waco and Belton Lake, it's to the southwest of Gatesville. All of the things the author describes on the drive from Waco are actually on Highway 36 coming from Temple to Gatesville. (Sidebar to the author, it's Mound, NOT Mold.) State School Road that is mentioned, was actually called that because there was a State School for Boys in Gatesville (which was turned into a prison unit years after it was closed). I realize that an author will take fictional liberties, but you can't change actual geography for a story. I am very surprised that the editorial staff did not do a better job! I did find it to be a good read, but the author needs to do a better job of checking her facts - or she needs to use completely fictional locations. (Oh yeah, Texas Instruments is in Temple - it's now closed.)
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Justice, Texas Style.....
By Roz Levine
Meet Poppy Rice, former Florida prosecutor and Bronx district attorney turned cracker-jack FBI Agent. She was brought to Washington to clean up and revamp the infamous FBI crime lab. With her take-no-prisoners style, she's turned the once sloppy and sometimes inept facility into a state of the art, well-oiled machine, the envy of the rest of the world. Now she's carved out a new role for herself, reinvestigating old cases, the ones that may have fallen through the cracks in the bad old days of slipshod investigations, and that's how she comes across Rona Leigh Glueck. Rona Leigh, former teenage ax murderer, now born again Christian, is sentenced to die by lethal injection in just ten days. She was a seventeen year old alcoholic, drug addicted, malnourished and only eighty-eight pounds at the time of the murders. With her tiny frame and childlike wrists and hands, Poppy doesn't believe she could have wielded a twenty-four pound ax at least a dozen times. Her trial was one big emotional travesty, topped off with very suspect expert testimony, "glee" made her able to do it. But what really sends Poppy to Texas looking for justice is the fact that the FBI crime lab ignored a request from Rona Leigh's public defender. Poppy feels if they had done their job, it just might have proven that Rona Leigh was innocent..... Based loosely on the Karla Faye Tucker case and execution, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith has written a fresh and entertaining thriller you won't be able to put down. This is an intriguing novel that has it all...a terrific and intricate story line complete with twists, turns, and more than a few surprises that keeps you off balance and turning pages, crisp, smart writing full of witty and irreverent dialogue and Texas humor, and vivid, riveting, sometimes laugh-out-loud-funny scenes. But it's Ms Smith's well drawn, engaging and original characters that really make this book stand out, and once you've met tough, clever and very capable Poppy Rice, you'll be hooked for sure. This is a book you don't want to miss. Love Her Madly is the first of what should be a marvelous new series, and should definitely be at the top of every mystery/thriller fan's "must read" list.
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