CRUEL AND UNUSUAL

By Patricia Cornwell

Synopsis

Dr Kay Scarpetta is preparing to perform a post-mortem on a convicted murderer when she hears that the murder of a young boy that very evening bears striking similarities to killings carried out by the dead man.

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Narrator	Grace Dives
Length	12hrs
Catalogue No.	4475
Publisher	Little, Brown Publishers

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Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland five years ago - now four have been discovered in the States. But the tenth corpse in Virginia is different. A copy-cat killing. Ghoulish, perhaps, but not unusual. Then abject terror grips Scarpetta and her colleagues when the next body is found with a clear and horrifying message: the killer is armed with the most lethal weapon on earth - smallpox.