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Identity Unknown

The Gripping New Kay Scarpetta Thriller For 2024

by Patricia Cornwell

THE THRILLING NEW KAY SCARPETTA MYSTERY FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER


'Iconic. Bold. Brilliant. Identity Unknown is hauntingly original, impossibly clever and devilishly daring. This series is one of the all-time greats' CHRIS WHITAKER, author of ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK

Summoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is Sal Giordano, an acclaimed astrophysicist - and a man Scarpetta once loved.

The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body. Scarpetta's niece Lucy believes Giordano was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows autopsies can reveal the dead's secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue.

As the investigators are torn between suspicions of otherworldly forces, and of Giordano himself, Scarpetta detects an explanation closer to home that, in her mind, is far more evil . . .

The next book in the Scarpetta series, Sharp Force, is available now!

'Nerve-jangling . . . A thriller that's out of this world' THE TIMES 'Heart-stopping' SUNDAY POST 'Cornwell on vintage form' FINANCIAL TIMES
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Pages:

400

Published:

Jul 2025

Format

Paperback

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group Limited

Imprint

Sphere

ISBN:

9781408732595

THE THRILLING NEW KAY SCARPETTA MYSTERY FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER




'Iconic. Bold. Brilliant. Identity Unknown is hauntingly original, impossibly clever and devilishly daring. This series is one of the all-time greats'
CHRIS WHITAKER, author of ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK

Summoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is Sal Giordano, an acclaimed astrophysicist - and a man Scarpetta once loved.

The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body. Scarpetta's niece Lucy believes Giordano was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows autopsies can reveal the dead's secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue.

As the investigators are torn between suspicions of otherworldly forces, and of Giordano himself, Scarpetta detects an explanation closer to home that, in her mind, is far more evil . . .

The next book in the Scarpetta series, Sharp Force, is available now!



'Nerve-jangling . . . A thriller that's out of this world'
THE TIMES


'Heart-stopping'
SUNDAY POST


'Cornwell on vintage form'
FINANCIAL TIMES
$28.00
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