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Patricia Cornwell

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Patricia Cornwell was born in Miami, Florida on June 9, 1956. When she was nine years old, her mother tried to give her and her two brothers to evangelist Billy Graham and his wife to care for. For a while the children lived with missionaries since their mother was unable to care for them. After visa mer graduating from Davidson College in 1979, she worked for The Charlotte Observer eventually covering the police beat and winning an investigative reporting award from the North Carolina Press Association for a series of articles on prostitution and crime in downtown Charlotte. Her award-winning biography of Ruth Bell Graham, the wife of Billy Graham, A Time for Remembering, was published in 1983. From 1984 to 1990, she worked as a technical writer and a computer analyst at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. While working for the medical examiner, she began to write novels. Although the award-winning novel Postmortem was initially rejected by seven different publishers, once it was published in 1990 it became the only novel ever to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards as well as the French Prix du Roman d'Adventure, in one year. She is the author of the Kay Scarpetta series, the Andy Brazil series, and the Winston Garano series. She has also written two cookbooks entitled Scarpetta's Winter Table and Food to Die For; a children's book entitled Life's Little Fable; and non-fiction works like Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Verk av Patricia Cornwell

Den osynlige (1990) 7,159 exemplar
Offer utan namn (1995) 5,695 exemplar
Kuslig likhet (1993) 5,555 exemplar
Dunkla vatten (1996) 5,554 exemplar
Allt som återstår (1992) 5,503 exemplar
Indicier (1991) 5,476 exemplar
Flyg fula fluga (2003) 5,363 exemplar
Eldens öga (1998) 5,335 exemplar
Offer utan namn (1999) 5,319 exemplar
Dödligt spår (2004) 5,147 exemplar
Sista utvägen (2000) 5,122 exemplar
Rovdjuret (2005) 4,752 exemplar
De dödas bok (2007) 4,311 exemplar
Scarpetta (2008) 3,454 exemplar
Getingboet (1996) 3,337 exemplar
Farozonen (2006) 2,925 exemplar
Mord i Central Park (2009) 2,839 exemplar
Fula fiskar (1999) 2,658 exemplar
Farligt fiske (2001) 2,547 exemplar
Skuggor ur det förflutna (2010) 2,367 exemplar
Röd dimma (2011) 2,027 exemplar
The Front (2008) 1,884 exemplar
The Bone Bed (2012) 1,745 exemplar
Dust (2013) 1,436 exemplar
Flesh and Blood (2014) 1,408 exemplar
Depraved Heart (2015) 1,188 exemplar
Chaos (2016) 981 exemplar
Autopsy (2021) 535 exemplar
Quantum (2019) 448 exemplar
Livid (2022) 406 exemplar
Scarpetta's Winter Table (1998) 353 exemplar
Unnatural Death (2023) 160 exemplar
Spin (2021) — Författare — 144 exemplar
Den osynlige; Indicier (2003) 138 exemplar
Chasing the Ripper (2014) 67 exemplar
Life's Little Fable (1999) 47 exemplar
Blow Fly [Abridged Audio Book] (2003) 19 exemplar
Predator [Abridged Audiobook] (2005) 19 exemplar
Livid (2022) 12 exemplar
Kay Scarpetta Series (1990) 8 exemplar
Blow Fly, Part 2 (2003) 5 exemplar
All That Remains [abridged] (2007) 4 exemplar
Blow Fly, Part 1 (2003) 4 exemplar
At Risk / The Front (2008) 3 exemplar
Onnatuurlijke oorzaak (2023) 2 exemplar
Spin 1 exemplar
Gr©œn d©œd (2015) 1 exemplar
NE RREZIK 1 exemplar
Cause innaturali 1 exemplar
Fronta (2009) 1 exemplar
Star Quest 1 exemplar
Touch of Darkness 1 exemplar
Split Image (2010) 1 exemplar
Link 1 exemplar
Scarpetta, Part 1 1 exemplar
Scarpetta, Part 2 1 exemplar
Predator, Part 1 1 exemplar
Predator, Part 2 1 exemplar
Book 4 1 exemplar
Cornwell Patricia 1 exemplar
Trace / Predator 1 exemplar
Harlequin 1 exemplar
Lavoura de Corpos 1 exemplar

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Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Cornwell, Patricia Carroll Daniels
Andra namn
קורנוול, פטרישה דניאלס
Födelsedag
1956-06-09
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Miami, Florida, USA
Bostadsorter
Miami, Florida, Verenigde Staten
Utbildning
Davidson College (BA | 1979 | English)
Yrken
reporter
technical writer (Office of Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia)
computer analyst
Relationer
Gruber, Staci (spouse)
Kort biografi
Her first crime novel, Postmortem, was published by Scribner’s in 1990. Initially rejected by seven major publishing houses, it became the first novel to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards as well as the French Prix du Roman d’Aventure in a single year. In Postmortem, Cornwell introduced Dr. Kay Scarpetta as the intrepid Chief Medical Examiner of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In 1999, Dr. Scarpetta herself won the Sherlock Award for best detective created by an American author

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Patricia Cornwell har i flera år intresserat sig för ett av historiens mest kända och olösta mordfall: Jack Uppskäraren. Hon har spenderat över 30 miljoner på en egen utredning och till sin hjälp har hon engagerat DNA-experter, grafologer och konstkännare.

Cornwell anser sig nu ha bevis för att det var den engelske konstnären Walter Sickert som låg bakom morden på fem prostituerade kvinnor i East End i London hösten 1888. För att bevisa sin tes har hon köpt in trettio av Sickerts målningar och skurit upp dem för att leta efter konstnärens egen DNA. Hon har också jämfört motiven i tavelserien "The Camden town murders" med foton från bårhuset och funnit likheter. Dessutom har hon på ett av de anonyma brev som skickades in till polisen i samband med utredningen funnit samma vattenstämpel som på det brevpapper Sickert använde.… (mer)
 
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CalleFriden | 93 andra recensioner | Mar 6, 2023 |
Alltid lika ruggig. Genom att läsa Patricias deckare på engelska så lär man sig den engelska vokabulären inom rättsmedicin. Som tur är har jag aldrig haft användning av det.....
 
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Mirris | 42 andra recensioner | Apr 16, 2008 |

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Verk
132
Även av
14
Medlemmar
121,084
Popularitet
#64
Betyg
½ 3.4
Recensioner
1,627
ISBN
2,755
Språk
31
Favoritmärkt
265

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