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Patricia Cornwell

Autor(a) de Postmortem

131+ Works 121,643 Membros 1,627 Reviews 265 Favorited

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

Séries

Obras de Patricia Cornwell

Postmortem (1990) 7,162 cópias
The Body Farm (1994) 6,351 cópias
From Potter's Field (1995) 5,690 cópias
Cause of Death (1996) 5,583 cópias
Cruel and Unusual (1993) 5,581 cópias
All That Remains (1992) 5,526 cópias
Body of Evidence (1991) 5,492 cópias
Blow Fly (2003) 5,385 cópias
Point of Origin (1998) 5,355 cópias
Black Notice (1999) 5,342 cópias
Unnatural Exposure (1997) 5,175 cópias
Trace (2004) 5,170 cópias
The Last Precinct (2000) 5,140 cópias
Predator (2005) 4,773 cópias
Book of the Dead (2007) 4,334 cópias
Scarpetta (2008) 3,475 cópias
Hornet's Nest (1996) 3,350 cópias
At Risk (2006) 2,935 cópias
The Scarpetta Factor (2009) 2,863 cópias
Southern Cross (1999) 2,668 cópias
Isle of Dogs (2001) 2,562 cópias
Port Mortuary (2010) 2,380 cópias
Red Mist (2011) 2,037 cópias
The Front (2008) 1,893 cópias
The Bone Bed (2012) 1,754 cópias
Dust (2013) 1,452 cópias
Flesh and Blood (2014) 1,428 cópias
Depraved Heart (2015) 1,200 cópias
Chaos (2016) 993 cópias
Autopsy (2021) 547 cópias
Quantum (2019) 449 cópias
Livid (2022) 419 cópias
Scarpetta's Winter Table (1998) 355 cópias
Unnatural Death (2023) 174 cópias
Spin (2021) — Autor — 145 cópias
Chasing the Ripper (2014) 67 cópias
Life's Little Fable (1999) 48 cópias
Livid (2022) 12 cópias
Kay Scarpetta Series (1990) 8 cópias
Blow Fly, Part 2 (2003) 5 cópias
Blow Fly, Part 1 (2003) 4 cópias
All That Remains [abridged] (2007) 4 cópias
At Risk / The Front (2008) 3 cópias
Onnatuurlijke oorzaak (2023) 2 cópias
Identity Unknown 2 cópias
NE RREZIK 1 exemplar(es)
Link 1 exemplar(es)
Spin 1 exemplar(es)
Gr©œn d©œd (2015) 1 exemplar(es)
Fronta (2009) 1 exemplar(es)
Split Image (2010) 1 exemplar(es)
Touch of Darkness 1 exemplar(es)
Star Quest 1 exemplar(es)
Cause innaturali (2024) 1 exemplar(es)
Konseki 1 (痕跡 上) 1 exemplar(es)
Harlequin 1 exemplar(es)
Trace / Predator 1 exemplar(es)
Cornwell Patricia 1 exemplar(es)
Book 4 1 exemplar(es)
Scarpetta, Part 1 1 exemplar(es)
Scarpetta, Part 2 1 exemplar(es)
Konseki 2 (痕跡 下) 1 exemplar(es)
Predator, Part 1 1 exemplar(es)
Predator, Part 2 1 exemplar(es)
Portrait of a Killer 1 exemplar(es)
Lavoura de Corpos 1 exemplar(es)

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo
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)
Ocupação
reporter
technical writer (Office of Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia)
computer analyst
Relacionamentos
Gruber, Staci (spouse)
Pequena biografia
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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Resenhas

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 | outras 93 resenhas | 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 | outras 12 resenhas | Feb 19, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
131
Also by
14
Membros
121,643
Popularidade
#62
Avaliação
½ 3.4
Resenhas
1,627
ISBNs
2,755
Idiomas
31
Favorito
265

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