Sharp Force
On sale
16th July 2026
Price: £10.99
Genre
NO ONE IS SAFE FROM THE SERIAL KILLER
NOT EVEN SCARPETTA…
In the early hours of the 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…
In the early hours of the 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 . . .
Reviews
The queen of the forensic thriller
The top gun in this field
Compelling, grisly and dark, another incredible thriller
The Agatha Christie of the DNA age
An especially good entry in the series
The queen of the forensic thriller
A pioneer of the genre of forensic psychological thriller
Astonishing . . . Thirty years on, there's still no other crime writer like her
Slick, ghoulish, and a reliable stocking-filler for crime fiction lovers
Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns
Expert pacing and psychologically nuanced and complex characters
Thirty years on, there's still no other crime writer like her
Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns
A brisk, kaleidoscopic thriller
A masterfully plotted and utterly addictive crime thriller
PRAISE FOR UNNATURAL DEATH
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
America's most stimulating and chilling writer of crime fiction
In Sharp Force Cornwell is at the very top of her game and Scarpetta is as finely wrought as ever. The research is as impeccable as always . . . You are in the hands of a master storyteller. Sit back and prepare to be thrilled
PRAISE FOR PATRICIA CORNWELL
America's most stimulating and chilling writer of crime fiction
The top gun in this field
One of the best crime writers writing today
This is vintage Cornwell
The Agatha Christie of the DNA age
PRAISE FOR PATRICIA CORNWELL
Slick, fast-paced and brilliant
With Cornwell's signature forensic detail and intense pacing, this latest instalment is a must read
Cutting-edge
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
One of the all-time greats of this genre
Sinister, surprising and utterly unputdownable. Cornwell at her brilliant best
One of the best crime writers writing today
