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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?
This is a latest Poppy Rich mystery. When the body of a young, pregnant woman washes ashore on a stretch of barren beach, Boston detective Rocky Patel writes to FBI agent Poppy Rice for help in identifying the Jane Doe. But the crime lab comes up empty, and not until a year and a half later does an anonymous tip reveal the woman to be the wayward daughter of a prominent political family. Just days before the ID, Poppy is asked to look into another case more than thirty years old. Then, a pregnant woman's corpse was found on the island of Inishmore. DNA testing soon confirms Poppy's gut feeling that the two drownings are somehow linked. Poppy sets out in search of truth and justice and instead finds herself ensnared in a web of political deceit, family intrigue and out-and-out bad guys.