An Evening with Patricia Cornwell - Waterstones Deansgate

We are delighted to welcome the highly acclaimed Patricia Cornwell to Deansgate, celebrating the release of her achingly honest memoir: True Crime.
Best known for her internationally bestselling Kay Scarpetta series, the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author finally tells the story that rivals all of the works that precede it: her own.
In this special event, Patricia Cornwell delves into her this deeply candid account of her life, offering inspiring insight into what made her into the international sensation she is today.
Doors at 6pm. Ticket with Book option includes a copy of True Crime, to be collected at the event.
About True Crime
Patricia Cornwell is best known for her international bestselling thriller series about forensic pathologist Dr Kay Scarpetta. Every story comes from somewhere, and Scarpetta's began when Patricia Cornwell embedded herself in a morgue.In this achingly honest memoir, Cornwell excavates her own life, detailing her traumatic childhood being raised by neglectful parents, her father abandoning the young family on Christmas day, her mother being institutionalised twice, an abusive foster family, and developing a parental relationship with evangelist Billy Graham's wife Ruth. Cornwell depicts a harrowing hospitalisation and near-death car accident. She unflinchingly shares overcoming obstacles that later gave her the ambition to become an award-winning police reporter. From there it was research in a medical examiner's office that would turn into a full-time job. She would become a forensic expert and worldwide publishing phenomenon.Cornwell leaves no stone unturned in this deeply candid account of her life.
About the author
In 1990, PATRICIA CORNWELL sold her first novel, Postmortem, while working at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. An auspicious debut, it went on to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity Awards, as well as the French Prix du Roman d'Aventures - the first book ever to claim all these distinctions in a single year. Growing into an international phenomenon, the Scarpetta series won Cornwell the Sherlock Award for best detective created by an American author, the Gold Dagger Award, the RBA Thriller Award, and the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters for her contributions to literary and artistic development. The series now spans 29 volumes.
Cornwell was born in Miami. She grew up in Montreat, North Carolina, and now lives and works in Boston.

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