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Sharp force / Patricia Cornwell.

Sharpforce (other title)
Cornwell, Patricia Daniels, (author.).

Summary:

"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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781538773963
  • ISBN: 1538773961
  • Physical Description: 385 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc., [2025]

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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.
Genre:
Suspense fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Detective and mystery fiction.
Forensic fiction.
Novels.

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  • 109 of 164 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library.

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  • 5 current holds with 164 total copies.
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