02156cam a2200421 i 4500 2602690475 TxAuBib 20250415120000.0 250530s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2025021071 9781538773963 hardcover 1538773961 hardcover (OCoLC)1495042942 TxAuBib rda Cornwell, Patricia Daniels, 1956-, author. Sharp force / Patricia Cornwell. First edition. New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group, 2025. 385 pages : 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Scarpetta novel, A ; 29 "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..."-- Provided by publisher. 20251024. Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character) Fiction. Medical examiners (Law) Fiction. Women physicians Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Serial murder investigation Fiction. Psychiatric hospitals Fiction. Women pathologists Fiction. Virginia Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) lcgft Detective and mystery fiction. fast A Scarpetta novel ; 29. TXKIP