Sharp Force

Resumen del libro

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 .

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Patricia Cornwellx{0026}lt;/B (Florida, 1956), directora de Ciencia Forense Aplicada en la National Forensic Academy, ha recibido múltiples galardones en reconocimiento a su obra literaria; destacan los premios Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, Macavity, el francés Prix du Roman d Aventure, el galardón británico Gold Dagger y el Galaxy British Book Award.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P En 1999, la doctora forense Kay Scarpetta, protagonista de la mayoría de sus novelas, recibió el premio Sherlock al mejor detective creado por un autor estadounidense.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P La obra de Cornwell ha sido traducida a más de treinta y dos idiomas.x{0026}lt;/P