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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9781416505402
ISBN number: 1416505407
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Page Count: 416
Printing Date: October 25, 2005
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'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 subsequent victim is someone she knows, the punishment will be cruel and unusual...
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I didn't find anything wrong with it at all. It was in great shape.
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Cornwell takes hold of your mind and does to let go until Scarpetta finds her solution. There is a horrible crime scene but it does produce some fingerprints. This is an easy case for Scarpetta until there is a match. It was a match to murderer that was executed before this murder. Read the book it is a good one. By Ruth Thompson author of "The Bluegrass Dream" and "Natchez Above The River"
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One of Cornwell's better books & I have read them all. This is the 4th book in the Scarpetta series (it's better to read them in order). This is the very first book to feature Temple Gault so should read this before you read Body Farm & From Potter's Field.
This book is a fast paced & should keep you flipping pages.
The ending was a bit of a disappointment - loose ends not resolved. However, I did like this book & it was nice that there is no love interest.
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Cornwell is one of the very best at crime mystery and her lead Dr, Scarpetta never disappoints. Great read.
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Granted this is one of Cornwell's better books and I have read them all, so I can attest to that fact. I recently went back and read this book, just to try to remember if the woman ever could really write, and my conclusion is yes, she once was quite good. This book is fast paced and Scarpetta is at her best, but still, as with all of Cornwell's books, this book is full of plot holes and the most incredulous coincidences, it's like a Cornwell trademark..warning spoiler alert...here are just some of the miriad of plot holes...I mean why would the warden let out this nut?..and how on earth did he do it? why not just contract somebody on the outside to find the briefcase..why the cloak and dagger with the fingerprints, why didnt the guy just wear gloves, then it would not have mattered, why on earth was the governor trying to ruin Scarpetta?...why were the warden and govenor trying to make it look like this guy executed was not actually the one executed..what was the point?..then all the stuff on Mark dying and Scarpetta giving the guy that helped him, 10,000 dollars..WHAT?!!!..then what was all that stuff with the bull dike prison guard..who had this Psycho in her house then later he decapitates her..why?..we are never told..why on earth did Scapetta and Marino not ask for back up to get Gault?..then they let him escape out the window and dont even bother to run after him..WHAT?!!..and at the beginning of the book, the killer kills a boy and stages him like a woman killed years ago..why not select a girl..why a boy?..if your trying to copycat..it makes no since at all...then all that stuff with that guy in her office..stealing the fingerprints along with this other woman that gets killed by the psycho..and im thinking..the govenor and warden where having this nut, pay the people their getting to frame Scarpetta...that makes absolutely no sense at all..there is more..i could go on and on..unfortunitely, this Temple Gault ends up in her later books, he's such a ridiculous character..something out of Silence of the Lambs..you can tell that book and movie were popular at the time these book are written because Gault is straight out of the mind of Thomas Harris..I do recommend reading this book, but you really need to not think at all about the idiosy of these people and all the holes..honestly with all the holes it's amazing this book holds together both figuratively and literally
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