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An edition of Cruel & unusual (1993)

Cruel & unusual

a novel

  • 5.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 14 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 8 Have read

"11:05 P.M. Convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the Commonwealth of Virginia's electric chair." "In the morgue, Dr. Kay Scarpetta has been waiting for Waddell's body. It's a strange feeling, preparing for an autopsy before the subject is dead. But Scarpetta's been here before. As Virginia's chief medical examiner, she knows the tension of watching the clock as the execution hour draws near.".

"Waddell's death isn't the only newsworthy event on this cold December night. Three hours after thirteen-year-old Eddie Heath goes out to a convenience store to buy a can of soup, his nude, grotesquely wounded body is found propped against a dumpster.".

"Waddell's execution, the attack on Eddie - the two events seem unrelated until Scarpetta and Richmond police lieutenant Pete Marino remember that Waddell arranged his victim in a strikingly similar position to Eddie's. And then there's a new murder, the most puzzling of all." "The crime scenes yield few clues: old bloodstains, fragments of feather, and - most baffling - a bloody fingerprint that points Scarpetta to the one suspect who could not possibly have committed this murder.".

"And somewhere in Virginia's corridors of power, perhaps even in her own office, lurks an enemy who will destroy Scarpetta unless she can produce the proof that will clear her name. With some help from her seventeen-year-old niece, computer whiz Lucy, as well as from her loyal friend Lieutenant Marino and FBI agent Benton Wesley, Scarpetta musters all her forensic expertise and investigative skills to uncover shocking secrets that will have vast repercussions.".

"Cruel and Unusual moves bestselling author Patricia D. Cornwell in dramatic new directions, confirming the extraordinary range and power of this gifted, prizewinning writer."--BOOK JACKET.

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Cover of: Cruel and unusual
Cruel and unusual
2005, Pocket Star Books
in English
Cover of: Shi luo de zhi wen
Shi luo de zhi wen
2000, Lian pu chu ban, Fa xing Cheng bang wen hua
in Chinese - Chu ban
Cover of: Extraño & cruel
Extraño & cruel
1994, Editorial Atlántida
in Spanish
Cover of: Shinhannin
Shinhannin: kenshikan Kei
1993, Kōdansha
in Japanese
Cover of: Cruel & unusual
Cruel & unusual: a novel
1993, Scribner's, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Maxwell Macmillan International, Charle's Scribner's Sons/Maxwell Macmillan
in English
Cover of: Cruel and unusual
Cruel and unusual
1993, G.K. Hall, G K Hall & Co
in English
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Cruel & unusual.
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Edition Notes

Spine title: Cruel and unusual.

Published in
New York, Toronto, New York
Genre
Fiction.
Other Titles
Cruel and unusual.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3553.O692 C78 1993

The Physical Object

Pagination
356 p. ;
Number of pages
356

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1728424M
Internet Archive
cruelunusualnov00corn
ISBN 10
0684195305
LCCN
92032684
OCLC/WorldCat
26547862
Library Thing
3905873
Goodreads
1246473

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