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Patricia Cornwell, author of Sharp Force: A Scarpetta Novel

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.

Week of July 6, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of July 6th include APOSTLE'S COVE, the 21st installment in William Kent Krueger's New York Times bestselling series featuring Cork O'Connor, who revisits a case from his past and confronts mysterious deaths in the present; THE WOMAN IN SUITE 11the follow-up to Ruth Ware’s multi-million-copy mega-hit, THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10, in which Lo Blacklock returns to attend the opening of a luxury hotel, only to find herself in a white-knuckled race across Europe; WAYWARD GIRLS by Susan Wiggs, a wrenching but life-affirming novel based on a true story of survival, friendship and redemption, revolving around six girls who are condemned to forced labor in the laundry of a Catholic reform school during the turbulent Vietnam era; and JFK: Public, Private, Secret, J. Randy Taraborrelli's deeply researched and authoritative biography of John F. Kennedy.