Her new memoir, “True Crime,” traces how she survived a Southern Gothic upbringing to emerge as one of the world’s most famous thriller writers.
TRUE CRIME: A Memoir, by Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell is meticulous about researching the plots of her best-selling forensic thrillers — leaving a quarter under one corpse’s buttocks for a month, for example, to test whether it oxidized on the... [790 chars]