Cruel and Unusual (Kay Scarpetta)
Cruel and Unusual is a 1993 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.
Work Information
The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.
Cruel and Unusual layers clues and shifting emotions so the reader follows not only the truth of the case but also the relationships around it. As the story moves forward, the tension outside the investigation comes into view.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Published
- 1993-06-10
- Pages
- 384 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.56 x 3.05 x 23.5 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780684195308
- ISBN-10
- 0684195305
- Price
- 1559 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery/Women Sleuths
The inspiration for the upcoming second season of the Amazon Prime Video series Scarpetta —starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis! “A knockout” ( People ) of a thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. “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 medical examiner 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 next victim is someone she knows, the punishment will be cruel and unusual...
Patricia Cornwell is recognized as one of the world’s top bestselling crime authors with novels translated into thirty-six languages in more than 120 countries. Her novels have won numerous prestigious awards including the Edgar, the Creasey, the Anthony, the Macavity, and the Prix du Roman d’Aventure. Beyond the Scarpetta series, Cornwell has written a definitive book about Jack the Ripper, a biography, and two more fiction series among others. Cornwell, a licensed helicopter pilot and scuba diver, actively researches the cutting-edge forensic technologies that inform her work. She was born in Miami, grew up in Montreat, NC, and now lives and works in Boston. Find out more at PatriciaCornwell.com, at Facebook.com/Patricia.Cornwell, on X: @1PCornwell, and on Instagram: @1PCornwell.
Reviews
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スカーペッタ、殺人犯で訴追さる！
電気椅子の死刑執行から始まり、おまけに人違いか！？などいう不穏な掴み。十年前の惨殺事件とそっくりの惨殺事件が起り、刑を執行されたはずの死刑囚が街に放たれた！！では死んだのは誰か、不思議な事に死刑囚の指紋記録が紛失して、本人確認ができない。誰かが記録を改竄している。そのうち、次々と関係者が謎の死をとげる・・・疑いはスカーペッタに降りかかって来る！ と中々面白い展開でぐいぐい引き込まれるも、red herringsが多すぎて、少し混乱気味で、ミステリー本来の構成具合は4つ星か。しかし、事件の面白さは秀逸で欠点をカバーして余りあるので5星。
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相当続きそう！
5冊目を読み終えたところです。この先も続きそうです。
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As with the other Scarpetta novels i have read you are kept on the edge of your seat throughout the whole book. The whole story is so real and the drama just keeps building. ive read these books before and im sure i will read again.
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The story is very chilling and she brings all the loopholes in the society into a single book in a way only patricia can
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This book is a good read very suspenseful just like the last 3 books in the series . I highly recommend this series.
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Great read
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Among buy Great series
Related Literary Awards
- CWA KAA Gold Dagger Edition 39 (1993) ・Winner