Patricia Cornwell: Sharp Force (UK 2025)

From the Publisher:
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...

Patricia Cornwell: Sharp Force. A Scarpetta Novel. Sphere, ISBN: 9781408722596 (October, 2025), 400 p., £22.00, eBook £9.99.

Patricia Cornwell: Sharp Force (USA 2025)

From the Publisher:
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.

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...

Patricia Cornwell: Sharp Force. A Scarpetta Novel. Grand Central Publishing, ISBN: 9781538773963 (October, 2025), 400 p., $30.00, eBook $14.99.