Patricia Cornwell
speaker
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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The Book Review · Patricia Cornwell on Her Dark Childhood and Best-Selling Novels · 8 May 2026
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She was just amazing.
And...
I started doing research there, talking to her whenever she'd let me.
I wanted to see an autopsy.
She said, no, there's no validation for you being down there seeing something like that.
And I said, well, what would it take to give me validation?
She said, well, I guess if you became a volunteer police officer.
So I did that.
But the big thing is I started I was writing books.
I started getting rejected.
And I wrote one and then another and then another.
Postmortem was my fourth attempt.
And by the time that got published, I'd been at the Emmy's office for six years.
It was my full-time job.
I started writing a mystery right after I finished the Ruth book, and I didn't know what the medical examiner would do.
And I was stymied.
And I was already working on a novel called The Stickdoll Murders where I had created a blowgun and they're in a shadow box on my wall right in this room.
But anyway, I was doing all that and I finally got this appointment.
So I went to see her and I went through all the stuff, you know, that I was going to do so that the person would get away with the crime or think of it.
And she would say, nope, that's not going to work.
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