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Title: Love Her Madly by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith ISBN: 0-7860-1657-4 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Justice, Texas Style.....
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: Holding My Breath for the Next Poppy!
Comment: I found this to be an excellent novel. The cover makes it look like a bit of fluff, but it is hard edged and great reading. It's a hardcore crime fiction, with twists and turns that are excellently connected. I've read some of the other reviews and feel that possibly the 'lightness' of the cover led some folks to the book who may not have otherwise read it. If has the tightness and darkness of James Lee Burke, Dennis Lehane and Nevada Barr. For the record, I am a Texan and while some comments were a bit far fetched, I found nothing to be 'offended by.' I am eagerly awaiting the next Poppy Rice.
Rating: 3
Summary: OK, But More Background To Explain Actions
Comment: Always on the search for good women thriller writers, I picked this up because of the intriguing plot synopsis. I found it a decent read, but not an exceptional one like Linda Fairstein or Alex Kava. There was too little background on what 'made' the Protagonist, why she feels and acts the way she does. I didn't much care for her one-night stand despite having a 'beau' back in DC. I wouldn't like that in a man; I certainly didn't in a woman. Some of the dialogue was a bit stilted, but that's to be expected for a first book in a series; the characters will fill out and appear more natural in subsequent sequels (I hope). Good twist at the end, though - keep that up.
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Title: She's Not There: A Poppy Rice Novel by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith ISBN: 0805072233 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Pub. Date: 03 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: She Smiled Sweetly : A Poppy Rice Mystery by Mary-Anne Tirone Smith ISBN: 0805072241 Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Pub. Date: 03 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Cold Target (Berkley Sensation) by Patricia Potter ISBN: 0425193861 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: If She Should Die by Carlene Thompson ISBN: 0312983131 Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Naked in Death by J. D. Robb ISBN: 0425148297 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 03 August, 2004 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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