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True Crime - Patricia Cornwell

By Patricia Cornwell

Release Date: 2026-05-05

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell finally tells the story that rivals all of the works that precede it: her own.

“Let’s start, and end, with this: Patricia Cornwell’s autobiography, TRUE CRIME, could be the best book she’s ever written. And I’ve read them all!” â€”James Patterson

Patricia Cornwell is best known for her international bestselling thriller series about forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Every story comes from somewhere, and Scarpetta's began when Patricia Cornwell embedded herself in a morgue.

In this achingly honest memoir, Cornwell excavates her own life, detailing her traumatic childhood being raised by neglectful parents, her father abandoning the young family on Christmas day, her mother being institutionalized twice, an abusive foster family, and developing a parental relationship with evangelist Billy Graham’s wife Ruth. Cornwell depicts a harrowing hospitalization and near-death car accident. She unflinchingly shares overcoming obstacles that later gave her the ambition to become an award-winning police reporter. From there it was research in a medical examiner’s office that would turn into a full-time job. She would become a forensic expert and worldwide publishing phenomenon.

Cornwell leaves no stone unturned in this deeply candid account of her life, offering inspiring insight into what made her into the international sensation she is today.

True Crime - Patricia Cornwell

By Patricia Cornwell

Release Date: 2026-05-05

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

(0 ratings)
Read Download
#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell finally tells the story that rivals all of the works that precede it: her own.

“Let’s start, and end, with this: Patricia Cornwell’s autobiography, TRUE CRIME, could be the best book she’s ever written. And I’ve read them all!” â€”James Patterson

Patricia Cornwell is best known for her international bestselling thriller series about forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Every story comes from somewhere, and Scarpetta's began when Patricia Cornwell embedded herself in a morgue.

In this achingly honest memoir, Cornwell excavates her own life, detailing her traumatic childhood being raised by neglectful parents, her father abandoning the young family on Christmas day, her mother being institutionalized twice, an abusive foster family, and developing a parental relationship with evangelist Billy Graham’s wife Ruth. Cornwell depicts a harrowing hospitalization and near-death car accident. She unflinchingly shares overcoming obstacles that later gave her the ambition to become an award-winning police reporter. From there it was research in a medical examiner’s office that would turn into a full-time job. She would become a forensic expert and worldwide publishing phenomenon.

Cornwell leaves no stone unturned in this deeply candid account of her life, offering inspiring insight into what made her into the international sensation she is today.

More by Patricia Cornwell

Dust

The Bone Bed

Flesh and Blood

Red Mist

Depraved Heart

Postmortem

Port Mortuary

Chaos

Autopsy

Body of Evidence

Livid

Trace

The Scarpetta Factor

All That Remains

Unnatural Death

Identity Unknown

Cruel and Unusual

The Body Farm

Unnatural Exposure

Scarpetta

Blow Fly

Cause of Death

Book of the Dead

Black Notice

Point of Origin

The Last Precinct

From Potter's Field

Sharp Force

Predator

At Risk

The Front

Hornet's Nest

Isle of Dogs

Southern Cross

Patricia Cornwell FIVE SCARPETTA NOVELS

Ruth, A Portrait

True Crime

Post MĂłrtem (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 1)

Quantum

Postmortem

Scarpetta

Polvere

Letto di ossa

El Ășltimo reducto (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 11)

El cuerpo del delito (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 2)

Inhumano (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 23)

Inhumaine

Kay Scarpetta (Versione italiana)

Link

Caos

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