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Sharp Force
A Thriller & Suspense Novel by Patricia Cornwell
Book 29 of the Kay Scarpetta Series
Subgenres:
- Serial Killer Thriller,
- Psychological Thriller,
- Northern Virginia
This book is for you if you're into...
- Serial killers who use cutting-edge surveillance tech
- Medical examiners facing threats from their own past
- Haunted settings like psychiatric hospitals with dark histories
From a New York Times bestselling author, a serial killer wreaks havoc on Northern Virginia, appearing as a ghostly apparition before striking—and Kay Scarpetta must avoid becoming their next victim, with SCARPETTA soon to be a streaming series starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis.
No one is safe from the serial killer—not even Scarpetta.
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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