Year first published: 1993<\/p>\n
First Edition: No<\/p>\n
Condition: Good<\/p>\n
Pages: 437<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cruel and\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Unusual\u00a0<\/i>won the CWA Gold Dagger Award and takes Patricia Cornwell to even greater heights, confirming the extraordinary range and power of this gifted author.<\/b><\/p>\n At 11.05 one December evening in Richmond, Virginia, convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the elector chair.<\/p>\n 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 even 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>\n Then a third murder is discovered, the most puzzling of all. The crime scene yields very few clues: old blood stains, fragments of feather, and – most baffling – a bloody fingerprints that points to the one suspect who could not possibly have committed this murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[22],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-951","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-fiction-c","8":"first","9":"outofstock","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"purchasable","12":"product-type-variable"},"yoast_head":"\n