Cruel and Unusual (A Dr Kay Scarpetta Mystery)
Author: Patricia Cornwell
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….Read More
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