Cruel and Unusual: Scarpetta 4 (Kay Scarpetta, #4)

by Patricia Cornwell

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“Killing me won’t kill the beast” warned convicted rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe

Waddell four days before his execution. Ignored as a madman’s rant, the words

come to haunt Scarpetta when Waddell’s fingerprints show up at a fresh crime—

committed after she’d performed his autopsy. It’s a chilling game, and Scarpetta

can’t afford to lose. Because if Waddell’s next victim is someone she loves, the

punishment will be CRUEL AND UNUSUAL.

When Dr. Kay Scarpetta and Police Lieutenant Pete Marino find the brutally wounded body of a 13-year-old boy carefully propped against a dumpster, and the only fingerprint that of an already executed criminal, their investigation takes a "cruel and unusual" turn.
  • ISBN10 1416505407
  • ISBN13 9781416505402
  • Publish Date 1 November 2005 (first published 1 June 1993)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Simon & Schuster
  • Format Paperback (US Tall Rack)
  • Pages 416
  • Language English