Sharp Force
The nail-biting new Scarpetta thriller for 2025
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4.0 • 36 Ratings
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
SCARPETTA, A BRAND NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, IS COMING SOON TO PRIME VIDEO
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 . . .
'In Sharp Force Cornwell is at the very top of her game and Scarpetta is as finely wrought as ever. The research is impeccable as always . . . You are in the hands of a master storyteller. Sit back and prepare to be thrilled' DAVID BALDACCI
'Compelling, grisly and dark, another incredible thriller' THE SUN
'This is vintage Cornwell' THE FINANCIAL TIMES
'Masterfully plotted and utterly addictive' WOMAN'S OWN
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
