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Patricia Cornwell's first crime novel, POSTMORTEM, was published in 1990 and became the first novel to win all the major crime awards in a single year. In 2008 Cornwell won the Galaxy British Book Awards' Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year - the first American ever to win this award. In 2011 she was awarded the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.Often interviewed on US national television as a forensic consultant, Cornwell is a founder of the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine; a founding member of the National Forensic Academy; a member of the Advisory Board for the Forensic Sciences Training Program at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, NYC and a member of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital's National Council, where she is an advocate for psychiatric research.Fox have acquired the film rights to the Scarpetta novels, featuring Angelina Jolie as Dr Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell's books are translated into thirty-six languages across more than fifty countries, and she is regarded as one of the major international bestselling authors.
Praise for Patricia Cornwell
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One of the best crime writers writing today
*Guardian*
Devilishly clever
*Sunday Times*
The top gun in this field
*Daily Telegraph*
A pioneer of the genre of forensic psychological thriller
*BBC*
Cornwell's books run on a cocktail of adrenaline and fear
*The Times*
When it comes to forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell
*New York Times Book Review*
Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns
*Mirror*
A perfectly formed thriller
*Sun*
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