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Patricia Cornwell

Autor(a) de Postmortem

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About the Author

Patricia Cornwell was born in Miami, Florida on June 9, 1956. When she was nine years old, her mother tried to give her and her two brothers to evangelist Billy Graham and his wife to care for. For a while the children lived with missionaries since their mother was unable to care for them. After mostrar mais graduating from Davidson College in 1979, she worked for The Charlotte Observer eventually covering the police beat and winning an investigative reporting award from the North Carolina Press Association for a series of articles on prostitution and crime in downtown Charlotte. Her award-winning biography of Ruth Bell Graham, the wife of Billy Graham, A Time for Remembering, was published in 1983. From 1984 to 1990, she worked as a technical writer and a computer analyst at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. While working for the medical examiner, she began to write novels. Although the award-winning novel Postmortem was initially rejected by seven different publishers, once it was published in 1990 it became the only novel ever to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards as well as the French Prix du Roman d'Adventure, in one year. She is the author of the Kay Scarpetta series, the Andy Brazil series, and the Winston Garano series. She has also written two cookbooks entitled Scarpetta's Winter Table and Food to Die For; a children's book entitled Life's Little Fable; and non-fiction works like Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras por Patricia Cornwell

Postmortem (1990) 7,159 exemplares
The Body Farm (1994) 6,323 exemplares
From Potter's Field (1995) 5,695 exemplares
Cause of Death (1996) 5,554 exemplares
Cruel and Unusual (1993) 5,554 exemplares
All That Remains (1992) 5,503 exemplares
Body of Evidence (1991) 5,476 exemplares
Blow Fly (2003) 5,363 exemplares
Point of Origin (1998) 5,335 exemplares
Black Notice (1999) 5,319 exemplares
Unnatural Exposure (1997) 5,158 exemplares
Trace (2004) 5,147 exemplares
The Last Precinct (2000) 5,122 exemplares
Predator (2005) 4,752 exemplares
Book of the Dead (2007) 4,311 exemplares
Scarpetta (2008) 3,454 exemplares
Hornet's Nest (1996) 3,337 exemplares
At Risk (2006) 2,925 exemplares
The Scarpetta Factor (2009) 2,839 exemplares
Southern Cross (1999) 2,658 exemplares
Isle of Dogs (2001) 2,547 exemplares
Port Mortuary (2010) 2,367 exemplares
Red Mist (2011) 2,027 exemplares
The Front (2008) 1,884 exemplares
The Bone Bed (2012) 1,745 exemplares
Dust (2013) 1,436 exemplares
Flesh and Blood (2014) 1,407 exemplares
Depraved Heart (2015) 1,188 exemplares
Chaos (2016) 982 exemplares
Autopsy (2021) 535 exemplares
Quantum (2019) 448 exemplares
Livid (2022) 406 exemplares
Scarpetta's Winter Table (1998) 353 exemplares
Unnatural Death (2023) 160 exemplares
Spin (2021) — Autor — 144 exemplares
Chasing the Ripper (2014) 67 exemplares
Life's Little Fable (1999) 47 exemplares
Postmortem AND All That Remains (2003) 23 exemplares
Blow Fly [Abridged Audio Book] (2003) 19 exemplares
Predator [Abridged Audiobook] (2005) 19 exemplares
Livid (2022) 12 exemplares
Kay Scarpetta Series (1990) 8 exemplares
Blow Fly, Part 2 (2003) 5 exemplares
All That Remains [abridged] (2007) 4 exemplares
Blow Fly, Part 1 (2003) 4 exemplares
At Risk / The Front (2008) 3 exemplares
Onnatuurlijke oorzaak (2023) 2 exemplares
Second Chance Tuesday 2 exemplares
O Vespeiro (Portuguese Edition) (2000) 2 exemplares
Spin 1 exemplar
Gr©œn d©œd (2015) 1 exemplar
NE RREZIK 1 exemplar
Cause innaturali 1 exemplar
Fronta (2009) 1 exemplar
Star Quest 1 exemplar
Touch of Darkness 1 exemplar
Split Image (2010) 1 exemplar
Link 1 exemplar
Scarpetta, Part 1 1 exemplar
Scarpetta, Part 2 1 exemplar
Predator, Part 1 1 exemplar
Predator, Part 2 1 exemplar
Book 4 1 exemplar
Cornwell Patricia 1 exemplar
Trace / Predator 1 exemplar
Harlequin 1 exemplar
Lavoura de Corpos 1 exemplar

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Cornwell, Patricia Carroll Daniels
Outros nomes
קורנוול, פטרישה דניאלס
Data de nascimento
1956-06-09
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Miami, Florida, USA
Locais de residência
Miami, Florida, Verenigde Staten
Educação
Davidson College (BA | 1979 | English)
Ocupações
reporter
technical writer (Office of Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia)
computer analyst
Relações
Gruber, Staci (spouse)

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Her first crime novel, Postmortem, was published by Scribner’s in 1990. Initially rejected by seven major publishing houses, it became the first novel to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards as well as the French Prix du Roman d’Aventure in a single year. In Postmortem, Cornwell introduced Dr. Kay Scarpetta as the intrepid Chief Medical Examiner of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In 1999, Dr. Scarpetta herself won the Sherlock Award for best detective created by an American author

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For some reason, this book just could NOT hold my attention. I was disappointed because I had so looked forward to reading it.
 
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thatnerd | 93 outras críticas | Mar 2, 2024 |
This was a good story; I love that there were so many forensic details included when Kay was investigating the body and the crime scene(s). This reminded me of the older Scarpetta novels and I miss this in the newest novels.
 
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Shauna_Morrison | 12 outras críticas | Feb 19, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
132
Also by
14
Membros
121,083
Popularidade
#64
Avaliação
½ 3.4
Críticas
1,627
ISBN
2,755
Línguas
31
Marcado como favorito
265

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