She’s authored twenty-nine New York Times bestsellers. To date, Cornwell’s books have sold some 100 million copies in thirty-six languages in over 120 countries. Postmortem would go on to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards as well as the French Prix du Roman d’Aventure prize – the first book ever to claim all these distinctions in a single year. At her first signing, held during a lunch break from the morgue, Patricia sold no copies of Postmortem and fielded exactly one question – an elderly woman asked her where she could find the cookbooks The transition to literary superstar was not easy. It paved the way for an explosion of entertainment featuring in all things forensic across film, television and literature. Postmortem, was the first bona fide forensic thriller. She sold her first novel, Postmortem, while working as a computer analyst at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. Patricia Cornwell has sold over 100 million books.
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