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  • 2025
  • First edition.

Sharp force

Patricia Daniels Cornwell

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During the early hours of Christmas morning, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a chilling call. The Phantom Slasher has struck again. The serial killer has terrorized Northern Virginia for months. His pattern is to stalk with a sophisticated technology that enables him to invade his victims' homes and watch their every move. They wake up to a ghost-like hologram before being murdered in their beds. Scarpetta is summoned to Mercy Island, the site of a notorious psychiatric hospital where two people have been brutalized, one of them from Scarpetta's past. It soon becomes apparent that she could be next.

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Title Statement Sharp force / Patricia Cornwell.
Series Scarpetta novel ;29
Author Cornwell, Patricia Daniels
Publication New York: Grand Central Publishing,2025.
Edition First edition.
Extent of Item 385 pages ;
ISBN 9781538773963 (hardcover)
Other Number pr08090472
Summary During the early hours of Christmas morning, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a chilling call. The Phantom Slasher has struck again. The serial killer has terrorized Northern Virginia for months. His pattern is to stalk with a sophisticated technology that enables him to invade his victims' homes and watch their every move. They wake up to a ghost-like hologram before being murdered in their beds. Scarpetta is summoned to Mercy Island, the site of a notorious psychiatric hospital where two people have been brutalized, one of them from Scarpetta's past. It soon becomes apparent that she could be next.
Subjects & Genres
By Topic Forensic pathologists--Fiction
Good and evil--Fiction
Man-woman relationships--Fiction
Medical examiners (Law)--Fiction
Murder--Fiction--Investigation
Psychiatric hospitals--Fiction
Serial murderers--Fiction
Secrecy--Fiction
Women physicians--Fiction
By Name Scarpetta, Kay
By Location Virginia--Fiction
By Genre Thrillers (Fiction)
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