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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Nope, that's not going to work.
Nope, I'd figure that out.
No toxicology will tell you otherwise.
And I'd say, what do you wear to a crime scene?
Do you wear a lab coat?
Nope, I don't wear a lab coat to the crime scene.
And it was all these dumb questions.
But this is how I began to learn what really happens.
And meanwhile, I'm going there doing research.
And doing, working on the stick doll murders.
Well, that all got rejected and I started another one and I'm still doing research.
I'm going, I'm not getting, I mean, I wasn't working there yet.
And then the chief came to me one day and he said, if you want to do something helpful around here, he said, maybe you can help edit my medical legal book, a journal that I publish a couple of times a year.
I said, okay.
So I started doing that.
Then they got a computer and he said, if you really want to be helpful, maybe you can figure out that blasted thing in the room that they expect us to start using.
So we started getting computerized.
And meanwhile, I'm still getting rejected as a novelist.
I'm writing at home when I go home after work.
And I learned computer programming.
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