NO ONE IS SAFE FROM THE SERIAL KILLERNOT EVEN SCARPETTA... 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 . . .
