“No, they’re not mysteries. You can’t call a dead body on a table a mystery” When Crime Scene meets Patricia Cornwell in London, she’s staying at the Savoy, a reminder that she’s a rare breed of writer: a superstar who’s a household name. Once she’s settled into the chintzy sofa, though, the Florida-born author is generous with her time. As we discuss her remarkable 27-year writing career while the hotel pianist plays in the background, she radiates Southern charm and is surprisingly modest. “I’m trying to learn how to do all this, you know, I’m working at it,” she says without irony. Like all the best thriller authors, Cornwell’s always competing with herself.
More than a quarter-century after her smash-hit debut, Postmortem, no one can accuse the Boston-based writer of…
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