Sharp Force
On sale
7th October 2025
Price: £22
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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 . . .
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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Reviews
The Agatha Christie of the DNA age
America's most stimulating and chilling writer of crime fiction
The Agatha Christie of the DNA age
The top gun in this field
America's most stimulating and chilling writer of crime fiction
One of the best crime writers writing today
Cutting-edge
The queen of the forensic thriller
A pioneer of the genre of forensic psychological thriller
PRAISE FOR PATRICIA CORNWELL
Astonishing . . . Thirty years on, there's still no other crime writer like her
The queen of the forensic thriller
An especially good entry in the series
One of the best crime writers writing today
Sinister, surprising and utterly unputdownable. Cornwell at her brilliant best
PRAISE FOR UNNATURAL DEATH
Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns
Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns
The top gun in this field
Cornwell really is in a league of her own
Classic Cornwell with an up-to-the-minute twenty-first-century plot - an intoxicating blend that proves Scarpetta is still queen of the autopsy and Cornwell is still queen of crime fiction. An utterly thrilling roller coaster ride
PRAISE FOR PATRICIA CORNWELL
One of the all-time greats of this genre
Thirty years on, there's still no other crime writer like her
Slick, fast-paced and brilliant
A chilling, thrilling, macabre masterpiece. Unnatural Death is Patricia Cornwell at her mesmerising finest. The best just got better
When it comes to forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell
