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 . . .
| ISBN: | 9781408722596 |
| Publication date: | 7th October 2025 |
| Author: | Patricia Cornwell |
| Publisher: | Sphere an imprint of Little, Brown |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 400 pages |
| Series: | Kay Scarpetta |
| Primary Genre | Crime and Mystery |
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