Sharp Force
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4.0 • 40 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell “at the very top of her game,” a serial killer wreaks havoc on Northern Virginia, appearing as a ghostly apparition before striking—and Scarpetta must avoid becoming their next victim, with SCARPETTA soon to be a streaming series starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis. (David Baldacci)
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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Virginia medical examiner Kay Scarpetta returns (after Identity Unknown) for a brisk, kaleidoscopic thriller from bestseller Cornwell. On Christmas eve, Kay is performing an autopsy on Rowdy O'Leary, whose body has just been pulled from the Potomac River. In his parka, she finds an expensive emerald ring in a presentation box, and grows curious as to why he'd bring such an item along on a nighttime fishing expedition. Meanwhile, the body of an unidentified woman is found in a graveyard on Mercy Island, site of a former mental hospital. Both cases make law enforcement nervous due to their ongoing search for the Phantom Slasher, a D.C.-area serial killer whose attacks have coincided with major holidays. Kay teams up with her brother-in-law, former police detective Pete Marino, to launch their own investigation, and soon gets an unusual clue when three strange primates escape from a laboratory near Kay's home. With a robotic dog, holograms galore, and mysterious red orbs circling the Virginia skies, the series continues its recent flirtation with science fiction, to occasionally eye-rolling effect. The pace is fleet enough, however, to keep Scarpetta fans flipping pages.
