Sharp Force

The 120-million-copy bestseller returns with a gripping new thriller featuring Kay Scarpetta.

PRAISE FOR UNNATURAL DEATH

A chilling, thrilling, macabre masterpiece. Unnatural Death is Patricia Cornwell at her mesmerising finest. The best just got better

Sinister, surprising and utterly unputdownable. Cornwell at her brilliant best

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

An especially good entry in the series

PRAISE FOR PATRICIA CORNWELL

One of the best crime writers writing today

Astonishing . . . Thirty years on, there's still no other crime writer like her

The top gun in this field

America's most stimulating and chilling writer of crime fiction

Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns

A pioneer of the genre of forensic psychological thriller

The Agatha Christie of the DNA age

The queen of the forensic thriller

Cutting-edge

When it comes to forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell

Slick, fast-paced and brilliant

PRAISE FOR PATRICIA CORNWELL

Thirty years on, there's still no other crime writer like her

One of the best crime writers writing today

Cornwell really is in a league of her own

One of the all-time greats of this genre

Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns

The top gun in this field

America's most stimulating and chilling writer of crime fiction

The Agatha Christie of the DNA age

The queen of the forensic thriller

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

Compelling, grisly and dark , another incredible thriller

This is vintage Cornwell

A masterfully plotted and utterly addictive crime thriller

With Cornwell's signature forensic detail and intense pacing , this latest instalment is a must read

A brisk, kaleidoscopic thriller

Expert pacing and psychologically nuanced and complex characters

Slick, ghoulish , and a reliable stocking-filler for crime fiction lovers

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

In 1990, Patricia Cornwell sold her first novel, Postmortem , while working at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. An auspicious debut, it went on to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity Awards, as well as the French Prix du Roman d'Aventures - the first book ever to claim all these distinctions in a single year. Growing into an international phenomenon, the Scarpetta series won Cornwell the Sherlock Award for best detective created by an American author, the Gold Dagger Award, the RBA Thriller Award, and the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters for her contributions to literary and artistic development.

Today, Cornwell's novels and iconic characters are known around the world. Beyond the Scarpetta series, Cornwell has written the definitive nonfiction account of Jack the Ripper's identity, cookbooks, a children's book, a biography of Ruth Graham, and three other fictional series based on the characters Win Garano, Andy Brazil, and Captain Callie Chase. Cornwell continues exploring the latest space-age technologies and threats relevant to contemporary life. Her interests range from the morgue to artificial intelligence and include visits to Interpol, the Pentagon, the U.S. Secret Service and NASA.

Cornwell was born in Miami. She grew up in Montreat, North Carolina, and now lives and works in Boston.