Celebrating 25 years, these characters have grown into an international phenomenon, winning Cornwell the Sherlock Award for best detective created by an American author, the Gold Dagger Award, the RBA Thriller Award, and the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters for her contributions to literary and artistic development.įox 2000 bought the rights to Kay Scarpetta. Patricia’s novels center primarily on medical examiner Kay Scarpetta along with her tech-savvy niece Lucy and fellow investigator Pete Marino. She’s authored twenty-nine New York Times bestsellers. To date, Cornwell’s books have sold some 100 million copies in thirty-six languages in over 120 countries. Postmortem would go on to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards as well as the French Prix du Roman d’Aventure prize – the first book ever to claim all these distinctions in a single year. It paved the way for an explosion of entertainment featuring in all things forensic across film, television and literature. Postmortem, was the first bona fide forensic thriller. Patricia Cornwell sold her first novel, Postmortem, in 1990 while working as a computer analyst at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia.
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