From the Library Journal:

"Move over V.I. and Kinsey-here comes Penelope (Poppy) Rice, FBI agent extraordinaire, as scrappy and effective as the best of the female operatives. Classed as a police procedural, this tale takes place mainly in Texas, where Rona Leigh Glueck, in jail for 17 years, is about to be executed for a gory double axe murder. Poppy takes a second look at the evidence and the trial transcripts and decides that Rona Leigh deserves, at the very least, a new trial. The cast of characters includes the low-life widower of one of the victims; Poppy's sometime lover Joe, from the department of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; and the last remaining Shaker elder. Some totally unexpected twists keep the reader delightedly off-balance. The grim descriptions of the procedure of death by lethal injection are disturbing and unsettling, as is the result, in more ways than one."

Hardcover with jacket.  New.