Cruel And Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)

by Patricia Cornwell

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The fourth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.
'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times

The fingerprints say the murderer is the man who's just been executed . . .

At 11.05 one December evening in Richmond, Virginia, convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair. At the morgue Dr Kay Scarpetta waits for Waddell's body. Preparing to perform a post-mortem before the subject is dead is a strange feeling, but Scarpetta has been here before. And Waddell's death is not the only newsworthy event on this freezing night:...Read more
  • ISBN10 0748109358
  • ISBN13 9780748109357
  • Publish Date 4 September 2008 (first published 1 June 1993)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Imprint Sphere
  • Edition Digital original
  • Format eBook (EPUB)
  • Pages 448
  • Language English