"Patricia Cornwell" is a contemporary American crime writer. She is widely known for writing a popular series of novels featuring the heroine Kay Scarpetta/Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a medical examiner. Her books have sold more than 100 million copies.

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My ongoing investigation is far from an obsession, but an excellent opportunity to provide a platform for applying modern science to a very old, highly visible case in the hope that we might learn something that could help solve modern crimes.

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The case is far from closed.

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Both were cremated so fast. To this day, it really bothers me. One minute they were there; the next minute they weren't. It's like a door that isn't quite closed.

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On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

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Benton Wesley was taking off his running shoes in my kitchen when I ran to him, my heart tripping over fear and hate and remembered horror.

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Jack the Ripper is caught. We have done it together.

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That morning, summer sulked and gathered darkly over Charlotte, and heat shimmered on pavement. Traffic teemed, people pushing forward to promise as they drove through new construction, and the past was bulldozed away.

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If it turns out that something indisputably proved that this notorious killer was someone other than Walter Richard Sickert, I would be the first to offer congratulations and retract my accusations.

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Putnam has done a wonderful job for me. Why would I want to be published anywhere else?

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