num_pages: 12
description: "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...
language: English
title: Cruel and Unusual
titlecomplete: Cruel and Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
characters: Lucy Farinelli, Pete Marino, Ronnie Joe Waddell, Kay Scarpetta, Benton Wesley
genres: Audiobook, Crime, Suspense, Thriller, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Detective, Murder Mystery, Mystery
ratings_count: 108166
places: Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
series: Kay Scarpetta
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: CWA Gold Dagger
publisher: Recorded Books, LLC