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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And out of necessity, I became their computer programmer because while I'm writing books that nobody wants.
And so that was an ordeal that I never thought would happen.
But if I hadn't been there that long, I wouldn't have learned what I needed to do, you know, for writing these books.
When I was in grade school, I wanted to be an archaeologist.
That was my pipe dream, and I read every book I could find on it.
I was intrigued, and I was always digging for things.
I was looking for gold.
I mean, I was just this weird person wanting to look for stuff.
But forensic science and forensic pathology are very similar to archaeology.
in that you are taking little pieces and parts of something and reconstructing a life and not only the death of that civilization or the people, but who they were before it happened.
And that to me is absolutely fascinating that you can find a fleck of paint
in a wound on someone's leg who's been hit by a car and you take it upstairs to the scanning electron microscope and you do other tests and you not only find out you find out the make and model of that vehicle and then you begin to track down who ran over this person and why there's just something about all that that i am insatiably curious i want to know what happened and that that's the journalist in me um
I want to know the truth.
I want to tell me.
And I don't know why that is, but that's just how I'm wired.
And so forensic pathology and forensic science fed right into that with me.
By the way, it's not because I like gore.
I'm squeamish as heck.
I mean, I really am squeamish.
I don't like it when I have to go in the morgue.
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