{"product_id":"9781466873179","title":"Love Her Madly: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA tense, death-row drama--meet brash FBI investigator Poppy Rice in \u003ci\u003eLove Her Madly\u003c\/i\u003e, the first of a winning new series by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoppy 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 \u003ci\u003eCBS Evening News--\u003c\/i\u003eDan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoppy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFunny and fearless, Poppy Rice is just about unstoppable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129847202032,"sku":"9781466873179","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466873179_p0.jpg?v=1769891914","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466873179","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}