Sharp Force
- Published
- 7 October 2025
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9781538773963
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sharp Force (2025) is the most recent Kay Scarpetta book in this catalogue. It follows Identity Unknown in the series.
Key facts about Sharp Force
Sharp Force is a novel by Patricia Cornwell. Readers have had it since 7 October 2025. It runs to 400 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of Sharp Force. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781538773963 to find the main one.
Sharp Force is book 29 of 29 in the Kay Scarpetta series. The series has 29 published books. However, the series starts with Postmortem (1990).
It is also the latest book in the series with a full release date. Meanwhile, Rapid and Fatal comes next, with an announced date of 19 January 2027.
Additionally, Patricia Cornwell writes Andy Brazil, Win Garano and Captain Chase as separate series. Those series sit on our thriller and techno-thriller shelves. It is also the latest published Patricia Cornwell book on file.
About Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell is credited with essentially inventing the modern forensic thriller. Born in 1956 and educated at Davidson College, she worked as a police reporter at the Charlotte Observer before spending six years as a technical writer and computer analyst inside the Chief Medical Examiner's office in Richmond, Virginia, sitting in on autopsies and absorbing real forensic procedure years before it was standard genre furniture. See every Patricia Cornwell book in order.
Its place in Kay Scarpetta
Sharp Force is book 29 in the Kay Scarpetta series. It follows Identity Unknown. See the full Kay Scarpetta reading order.
Kay Scarpetta is the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia (and, later, a federal forensic investigator and private consultant) whose autopsy table is where every case really begins. Patricia Cornwell's series is credited with popularising the modern forensic-procedural: DNA evidence, trace analysis and autopsy detail that were startlingly technical for genre fiction in 1990 and remain a core selling point today. Scarpetta investigates alongside her homicide-detective niece-in-all-but-name-later-partner Pete Marino…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781408722596
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781538773963