Cruel and Unusual by Patricia Cornwell
This was giving Green Mile vibes at the beginning. It didn't end that way, but that was what came to mind when I started it. We have a man sent to death row, given the electric chair, and they have to shock him twice. Then, his fingerprints aren't taken at the morgue. The morgue assistant is making mistakes, blaming on her pregnancy. Then, the guys whole file starts to go missing. Then, we have another body that is staged to look just like the one the guy killed. Then, the morgue assistant is killed and her husband is saying all kinds of crazy stuff to the paper. Also, the morgue administrator is acting shady. It's a whole mess. Lucy is in town and the FBI is letting her help with computer stuff. Mark dies off the page, so now the love interest is gone and his death is being used as a potential excuse for erratic behavior. Kay is being persecuted and they call a grand jury for her; nothing comes of that. And people from the jail start dying. Turns out, the original guy, who was executed, really did commit the first crime; but the now governor is trying to cover up his affair and so he had the jail release a prisoner they weren't supposed to and he's been blackmailing the morgue administrator and assistant, but then he kills the assistant and he killed the kid, and the people from the jail. He gets away but they know who he is. It was all very convoluted. This didn't seem to wrap up as nicely as some of the previous books, but it was still interesting.
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