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Patricia Cornwell sold her first novel, Postmortem, while working as a computer analyst at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. To date, Cornwell's books have sold some 100 million copies in thirty-six languages in over 120 countries. She's authored twenty-six New York Times bestsellers. Patricia's novels center primarily on medical examiner Kay Scarpetta along with her tech-savvy niece Lucy and fellow investigator Pete Marino. Patricia's literary career expands outside the realm of the Kay Scarpetta series - she's authored a definitive account of Jack the Ripper's identity, two cookbooks (Food to Die For and Scarpetta's Winter Table), a children's book (Life's Little Fable), and a biography of Ruth Graham. She's also developed two other series based on Win Garano, an upstart Boston detective, and Andy Brazil, an enterprising Charlotte reporter. Though Cornwell now lives in Boston, she was born in Miami and grew up in Montreat, North Carolina. After earning her degree in English from Davidson College in 1979, she began working at the Charlotte Observer, taking whatever stories came her way and rapidly advancing from listing television programs to covering the police beat. When not writing from her Boston home, Patricia tirelessly researches cutting-edge forensic technologies to include in her work. Her interests span outside the literary: Patricia co-founded the National Forensic Academy and created a Chair in Organic Science at Harvard. She appears as a forensic consultant on CNN and serves as a member of Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital's National Council, where she advocates for psychiatric research. She's helped fund the ICU at Cornell's Animal Hospital, the scientific study of a Confederate submarine, the archaeological excavation of Jamestown, and a variety of law enforcement charities. Patricia is also committed to funding scholarships and literacy programs. Her advice to aspiring authors: Start writing. And don't take no for an answer. Lorelei King is an accomplished American actress working in the UK. She has appeared in ITV's soap opera Emmerdale and in films Shining Through, Notting Hill, 24 Hours in London and The House of Mirth. Lorelei is a multi-award-winning narrator of audiobooks, as well as a writer, script editor and co-founder of the digital publishing company, Creative Content Ltd.
'When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell.' -- The New York Times Book Review 'Patricia Cornwell is America's most stimulating and chilling writer of crime fiction.' -- The Times 'The iconic forensic consultant is as brittle as ever, and the body count is as high as Cornwell fans have come to expect. Cornwell hasn't sold 100 million novels for no good reason.' -- The Independent on Sunday 'Cornwell has created a character so real, so compelling, so driven that this reader has to remind herself regularly that Scarpetta is just a product of an author's imagination.' -- USA Today 'A knife-edged thriller based on the exploits of the toughest female pathologist ever to conduct an autopsy ... If you like your fiction fast-paced with a scientific twist, Cornwell delivers once again, and if you are new to Scarpetta, you are sure to be hooked by the end of the first chapter.' -- Irish Examiner
