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Cruel and Unusual: Scarpetta 4 Mass market paperbound - 2005

by Patricia Cornwell

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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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From the publisher

The inspiration for Season 2 of the Amazon Prime Video series Scarpetta--starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis!

"A knockout" (People) of a thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta isn't used to planning autopsies on men who are still alive, but that's exactly what she's tasked with when serial killer Ronnie Joe Waddell is set for execution. His last words? "Killing me won't kill the beast." Enigmatic as they are, they soon prove prophetic: days after his execution, another body is found--with Waddell's fingerprints at the crime scene.

How did a dead man commit a murder? Did Scarpetta autopsy the wrong man? And why can't she shake the feeling that she might be next?

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  • Title Cruel and Unusual: Scarpetta 4
  • Author Patricia Cornwell
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pocket Books, Bristol, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2005-11-01
  • ISBN 9781416505402 / 1416505407
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.5 x 4.13 x 0.9 in (19.05 x 10.49 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Fiction - Psychological Suspense
  • Library of Congress subjects Virginia, Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005577344
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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"Classic Cornwell...chilling...riveting...utterly convincing."
-- Richmond Times-Dispatch

About the author

Patricia Cornwell is recognized as one of the world's top bestselling crime authors with novels translated into thirty-six languages in more than 120 countries. Her novels have won numerous prestigious awards including the Edgar, the Creasey, the Anthony, the Macavity, and the Prix du Roman d'Aventure. Beyond the Scarpetta series, Cornwell has written a definitive book about Jack the Ripper, a biography, and two more fiction series, among others. Cornwell, a licensed helicopter pilot and scuba diver, actively researches the cutting-edge forensic technologies that inform her work. She was born in Miami, grew up in Montreat, North Carolina, and now lives and works in Boston. Find out more at PatriciaCornwell.com, at Facebook.com/Patricia.Cornwell, on X: @1PCornwell, and on Instagram: @1PCornwell.
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