Love Her Madly Audiobook By Mary-Ann Tirone Smith cover art

Love Her Madly

Preview
Try for $0.00
Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Love Her Madly

By: Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $20.00

Buy for $20.00

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

About this listen

Poppy Rice is home in her D.C. apartment with very little furniture and a stack of boxes she still hasn't unpacked after five years. It's three AM and she's suffering from her usual insomnia, so she watches a tape of the CBS Evening News. Dan Rather is interviewing convicted ax-murderer Rona Leigh Glueck who, in 10 days, will be the first woman executed in Texas since the Civil War. Poppy pauses the tape on a close-up of Rona Leigh's delicate, child-like hands.

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 frail woman, only 17 years old, 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 impetuous and relentless Poppy reopens the investigation to find out if Rona Leigh deserves a certificate that will read: Death by Legal Homicide as Ordered by the State of Texas.

©2005 Mary-Ann Tirone Smith (P)2005 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Crime Fiction Legal Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths
adbl_web_global_use_to_activate_T1_webcro805_stickypopup
All stars
Most relevant  
I wish there were a lot more Poppy Rice books. This one is extensively researched. The protagonist is relatable, not perfect. Of course, the narration is excellent.

One of the best books I've read in a while.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

I thought it was very entertaining. A great story. The ending was a bit disappointing. I would like to hear what happened to “Jesus’ sister”

Good

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.