Cruel & Unusual

"It's important to me to live in the world I want to write about," says Patricia Cornwell. "If I want a character to do or know something, I try to do or know the same thing." The award-winning former police reporter spent time working both as an employee of the Virginia Chief Medical Examiner's Office and as a volunteer police officer before she wrote her first Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel, Postmortem. Her preparation paid off-Postmortem was the first novel ever to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, Macavity, and the French Prix du Roman d'Aventure awards in one year. She has followed that up with six other bestselling novels featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta, most recently the #1 New York Times bestseller, Cause of Death. Ms. Cornwell is also the author of A Time For Remembering, a biography of Ruth Bell Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.Cornwell, Patricia is the author of 'Cruel & Unusual' with ISBN 9780380718344 and ISBN 0380718340.