"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,
Cruel and unusual
โ Scribed by Patricia Cornwell
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 194 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
SUMMARY: "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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