[This story contains MAJOR spoilers from the season one finale of Scarpetta.]
In 1990, Patricia Cornwell published her debut novel, Postmortem, about a forensic pathologist named Kay Scarpetta — inspired by real-life former chief medical examiner Marcella Farinelli Fierro — who investigates suspicious deaths in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Drawing from her experiences working as a crime reporter and then in the Virginia medical examiner’s office, Cornwell blazed a new trail in the traditionally male crime thriller genre. Since then, with her laser focus on cutting-edge forensic science, Cornwell has published 28 more Scarpetta novels and sold more than 120 million copies.
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