- Fiction, Kay Scarpetta (Fictitious character), Serial murders, Medical examiners (Law)
"11:05 P.M. Convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the Commonwealth of Virginia's electric chair." "In the morgue, Dr. Kay Scarpetta has been waiting for Waddell's body.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Patricia Cornwell
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 378
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Lian pu chu ban, Bookcassette
- Editions
- 65
- Language
- Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780736625180
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“The Monday I carried Ronnie Joe Waddell's meditation in my pocketbook, I never saw the sun.”
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