FBI investigator Poppy Rice, suffering from her usual insomnia, is sitting up late watching the news when a story piques her interest. Convicted axe-murderer Rona Leigh Glueck is being interviewed, and in ten days' time will be the first woman to be executed in Texas since the Civil War. Poppy ponders on a close-up of Rona Leigh's delicate, childlike hands. Could a frail woman, only seventeen at the time, have physically committed these murders? With the reluctant support of her colleague and sometime lover, Joe Barnow, fearless Poppy reopens the investigation. Trawling through testimonies and the grisly crime-scene photographs, she must find the answer to one vital question...Does Rona Leigh deserve a certificate that will read: Death by Legal Homicide as Ordered by the State of Texas?
- ISBN10 0709078706
- ISBN13 9780709078708
- Publish Date 30 September 2005 (first published 1 January 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 2 April 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The Crowood Press Ltd
- Imprint Robert Hale Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English