Patricia Cornwell

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744 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 30 Jun

Patricia Cornwell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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It's like watching the Cirque du Soleil or Olympic gymnasts do things that I go, how on earth did you just do that?

I called this editor who rejected me three times.

I said, well, what am I doing wrong?

And she said, well, these stories, is this what you see in the morgue?

I said, no, it's nothing like what I see at the morgue.

And she said, well, I want to see what you see.

Yeah, criticism has been a huge fuel for me, like a creative writing prompt or something.

And I thought, it has to start with my mother burning the clothes.

Probably January of 1965, we'd been at home from school for quite a while because of these massive snowstorms that kept hitting.

In fact, it was the worst in recent history.

And we would be out of school.

like over a week at a time.

And of course, that was loads of fun for kids, sledding and snowball fights and all that.

But it was a nightmare for my mother.

And she was in the throes of a psychotic depression.

I mean, I know that now.

I didn't know what was going on then.

And it had been going, it had started.

This had gone on since the fall and gotten worse and worse.

And I think it all had to do with the fact that my father had come up to see us.

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