Cruel and Unusual
"Killing me won't kill the beast" are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution. But they can't explain how Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell's fingerprints on another crime scene -- after she'd performed his autopsy. If this is some sort of game,...
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"Killing me won't kill the beast" are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution. But they can't explain how Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell's fingerprints on another crime scene -- after she'd performed his autopsy. If this is some sort of game, Scarpetta seems to be the target. And if the next victim is someone she knows, the punishment will be cruel and unusual...
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9781416505402 (1416505407)
ASIN: 1416505407
Publish date: November 1st 2005
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 409
Edition language: English
Series: Kay Scarpetta (#4)
SPOILERS!!!!! 26/3 - One of my favourite Scarpetta mysteries and another that gets to keep its five star rating. It sets up a long-running battle between Scarpetta and Gault and her continuing problems with the politicians/her bosses. I had forgotten the way things, big things, happen 'off screen' s...
I didn't come up for air once. I was in the mood.
Lots of technical details. All came together v quickly at the end
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1025097.Patricia_Cornwell#
I'll write a formal book review for this one soon.
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