Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwellis a contemporary American crime writer. She is widely known for writing a popular series of novels featuring the heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a medical examiner. Her books have sold more than 100 million copies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 June 1956
CityMiami, FL
CountryUnited States of America
The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.
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If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.
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Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
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Jack the Ripper is caught. We have done it together.
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If it turns out that something indisputably proved that this notorious killer was someone other than Walter Richard Sickert, I would be the first to offer congratulations and retract my accusations.
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My ongoing investigation is far from an obsession, but an excellent opportunity to provide a platform for applying modern science to a very old, highly visible case in the hope that we might learn something that could help solve modern crimes.
I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.
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That morning, summer sulked and gathered darkly over Charlotte, and heat shimmered on pavement. Traffic teemed, people pushing forward to promise as they drove through new construction, and the past was bulldozed away.
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I know from Lucy's voice that she is scared. Rarely is my brilliant, forceful, helicopter-piloting, fitness-obsessed, federal-law-enforcement-agent niece scared.
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They won't get a hotel room on the 25th floor. They know a ladder won't reach that high. So they stay 15 and below. And wherever they go, they're looking for fire exits.
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Being gay is just one aspect of my very complicated life. I do not wear it on my sleeve.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.
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I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.