Author

Patricia Cornwell

56 books, mostly thriller, for Recorded Books and William Morrow, 2004–2026

Patricia Cornwell is an American bestselling crime writer best known for the Kay Scarpetta novels, which helped popularize forensic thrillers centered on medical examiners and scientific investigation. She began her career as a newspaper reporter and later worked at Virginia’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, experiences that informed her debut novel, Postmortem. Her books have won major mystery and thriller awards and have been translated worldwide; she has also written other fiction series, nonfiction, biography, and cookbooks.