02094cam a2200349 4500 2583231913 TxAuBib 20251007120000.0 250530s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 2025021071 9781538773963 1538773961 TxAuBib Cornwell, Patricia Daniels, author. Sharp Force / Patricia Cornwell. First edition. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2025. 385 p ; 24 cm. Kay Scarpetta [KS] ; 29 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. 20251007. Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character) Fiction. Forensic pathologists Fiction. Women pathologists Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Serial murderers Fiction. Virginia Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. fast Thrillers (Fiction.) fast Kay Scarpetta [KS] ; 29. TXGID