Sharp Force

By: Patricia Cornwell

Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2025

<b>From a <i>New York Times</i> 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.<br> <br> <br> <br> NO ONE IS SAFE FROM THE SERIAL KILLER</b> <br> <br> <br> <br> <b>NOT EVEN SCARPETTA...</b> <br> <br> <br> <br> During the early hours of Christmas morning, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a chilling call. The Phantom Slasher has struck again. <br> <br> <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> <br> <br> 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...