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Sharp force / Patricia Cornwell.

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781538773963 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 385 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2025.
Subject: Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Forensic pathologists > Fiction.
Good and evil > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Medical examiners (Law) > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Psychiatric hospitals > Fiction.
Serial murderers > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Women physicians > Fiction.
Virginia > Fiction.
Genre: Thrillers (Fiction)
Novels.

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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.

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