844 3c87f905-0b38-40b6-8f9b-25a4e285adfd Cruel and Unusual Patricia Cornwell calibre (0.8.17) [http://calibre-ebook.com] 1993-01-01T08:00:00+00:00 <p class="description">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; the grotesquely wounded body of a young boy is found propped against a rubbish skip. To Scarpetta the two cases seem unrelated, until she recalls that the body of Waddell's victim had been arranged in a strikingly similar position.</p> eng General Suspense Fiction Mystery & Detective Detective and Mystery Stories Serial Murders Political Virginia Women Sleuths Women Detectives Women Detectives - Virginia Medical Examiners (Law) - Virginia Scarpetta; Kay (Fictitious Character) Medical Examiners (Law) Women Physicians Forensic Pathologists Richmond (Va.) Detective and Mysteryes Serial Murders - Virginia