Patricia Cornwell
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744 appearances
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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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The Book Review · Patricia Cornwell on Her Dark Childhood and Best-Selling Novels · 8 May 2026
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If I had to keep that all inside and never do anything with it,
that would be very haunting.
But I suppose you're probably right.
When I was doing that in college, it must have been more for therapy because I never even tried to get it published.
I never sent it anywhere, not even once.
When I finished it and got my grade, so to speak, I thought, okay, well, I'm not sure what this was all about.
It's not ever going to be published, but I got a grade and I really didn't think about it anymore.
It was awful.
Oh, my God.
It was so boring and tedious.
You know, the town of Montreat, for all of the horrors of my childhood, I mean, there were tough stuff for sure, but the town itself, it had a zero crime rate.
So nobody even locked their doors.
So to go from that to the crime beat where you're going to homicide scenes and you're talking to rape victims or you're going to talk to the...
parents of a child who's been abducted, whose body shows up on a lake shore.
This was not something that I'd ever had any exposure to.
And the reason I think I was good at it, had an aptitude for it, and was so relentless is because it was so shocking to me.
I had to find out everything I could.
And I think in my own weird way, I was trying to help with the investigation.
And I became, you know, very close.
The police were, you know, I spent a lot of time with them.
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