Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwellis a contemporary American crime writer. She is widely known for writing a popular series of novels featuring the heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a medical examiner. Her books have sold more than 100 million copies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 June 1956
CityMiami, FL
CountryUnited States of America
jack
Jack the Ripper is caught. We have done it together.
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I know from Lucy's voice that she is scared. Rarely is my brilliant, forceful, helicopter-piloting, fitness-obsessed, federal-law-enforcement-agent niece scared.
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If it turns out that something indisputably proved that this notorious killer was someone other than Walter Richard Sickert, I would be the first to offer congratulations and retract my accusations.
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That morning, summer sulked and gathered darkly over Charlotte, and heat shimmered on pavement. Traffic teemed, people pushing forward to promise as they drove through new construction, and the past was bulldozed away.
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They won't get a hotel room on the 25th floor. They know a ladder won't reach that high. So they stay 15 and below. And wherever they go, they're looking for fire exits.
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The Ripper case is not one to be conclusively solved by DNA or fingerprints, ... and in a way, this is good. Society has come to expect the wizardry of forensic science to solve all crimes, but without the human element of deductive skills, teamwork, very hard investigation, and smart prosecution, evidence means nothing.
helicopter might
If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
human
The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
technology people crime
I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
trying world one-thing
If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
world harm found
Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.
friday
I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
night air wind
Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
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Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.