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Bestselling Books Hardcover Old and New

(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar. 23, by Dermot McEvoy and Michael Coffey ) Familiar voices crowd the top in fiction; in nonfiction, the fundamental rules apply—plus all things Obama John Grisham’s aptly titled Appeal had the most of it, as far as the novel-buying...

Scarpetta is back on the case

(metrobostonnews.com, Dec. 9, Dorothy Robinson) Patricia Cornwell on 20 years of her fictitious crime fighter Before there was “Bones” “Dr. G: Medical Examiner,” “Dexter,” “Forensic Files,” “CSI,” and the many, many other TV shows revolving around forensics, there was...

The monster Patricia Cornwell created

(cnn.com, Dec. 15, Jacque Wilson) When Patricia Cornwell began writing thriller novels, she ruled the world of forensic science. “I could treat readers in each book to some new aspect that they wouldn’t be familiar with,” Cornwell said. Now the...

Patricia Cornwell – Scarpetta

(Publisher’s Weekly, Nov. 24, 2008) Patricia Cornwell told fans on her web site that in Scarpetta “Someone from the past returns, someone I didn’t anticpate and you might be in for a big surprise.” Get your copy of Scarpetta at www.vjbooks.com...