Cruel And Unusual – Little, Brown Book Group

The fourth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell - now an original series on Prime Video'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The TimesThe 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 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 . . . The next book in the Scarpetta series is The Body Farm. And don't miss True Crime, Patricia Cornwell's jaw-dropp