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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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.
And secondly, your best character is this woman medical examiner who's a minor character.
Make her the main character.
And I thought, oh, my God, I don't know if I can do that.
I don't know enough to do that.
I said, well, thank you, and I will try.
Well, meanwhile, around this same time, these serial murders were starting in Richmond.
And it turned the whole city upside down.
I mean, it was one of the worst things ever.
And I was working at the medical examiner's office while this was happening.
I was riding with the police on the weekend.
So I was seeing the homes of these people.
We'd sit outside and we'd talk about the case.
I had nothing to do with the cases in terms of what happened at our office.
Dr. Fierro wouldn't let anybody know.
Nobody was present during the autopsies except certain key staff people, and she sealed the records and locked them in a drawer because she was so afraid of leaks because this was such a nightmare situation going on.
And as this was happening, and I was watching how Marcella was dealing with it, and I was traumatized.
I bought my first gun.
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