Episode · The Book Review · 2026-05-08
Books mentioned on Patricia Cornwell on Her Dark Childhood and Best-Selling Novels
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Postmortem
Discussed“Well, you know, so what happened is when Postmortem came out and when it won started winning the awards and the LA Times book reviewer, Charles Champlain, who had given a wonderful review for Postmortem...”
Where to get it
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Body of Evidence
Discussed“I got $6,000 for postmortem I got $120,000 for body of evidence and that was that to me was like oh my goodness”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Postmortem
“There was a series of of events that happened in 1987 that led to you writing your first book or or that you incorporated rather into your first book postmortem.”