Christmas morning should bring peace. Instead, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Virginia’s chief medical examiner, is called to a fresh horror. The Phantom Slasher has struck again.
For months, the killer has stalked the region, armed with technology that lets him invade homes and watch his victims before attacking. Survivors see only a ghostly hologram before the knife falls. No one has been able to stop him. No one has even come close.
Now, two brutalized bodies on Mercy Island point to connections Scarpetta cannot ignore, one victim tied to her own past, the other to a case already fraying at the edges.
Scarpetta knows she is running out of time. And if she cannot outwit the Phantom Slasher, she may soon become his final masterpiece.
