Patricia Cornwell
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744 appearances
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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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I think it was rejected by at least half a dozen houses before Scribner took it on, barely.
And just by a thread, if that editor, Suzanne Kirk, had not seen it, she said she liked the Scarpetta character.
She thought she was worth watching.
And they took it.
If that hadn't happened, I really would have quit after that.
I wouldn't have tried anymore.
That had been four strikes, you're out.
That's always, and that's a really good question because, you know, I remember one time somebody in the UK, I don't remember who it was, had said that you can write about violence, but you don't celebrate it.
And because the stories are told from Scarpetta's point of view,
there's an element of condemning this violence as opposed to make it scintillating and exciting and sexy, because you'll never get that from her point of view.
And that's the point of view I write from.
But it's a very, very good question because it's something I struggled with at that time.
I thought to myself, I'm seeing the real thing every day.
How do I write about this?
How do I let my imagination, let this infiltrate it?
And how can I do this
Well, I'm condemning it and not celebrating it because I do not want to add to the problem.
But the thing is, these things do happen out there.
And by the same token that it may seem very graphic and some people could say it's exploitive.
But, you know, we need to know these things, even if they're painful.
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