(CBS News) Patricia Cornwell is out with her 21st novel in her Kay Scarpetta series called "Dust." The best-selling author's book is the latest pick for "CBS This Morning Reads." The story picks up ...

(CBS News) Author Patricia Cornwell has been making a killing WRITING about killings - all kinds of killings. Martha Teichner gives us a read on her prolific career: The "Scarpetta Patch" - which ...

Cornwell's latest work, "Trace," is already near the top of most bestseller lists, and it picks up where her last Scarpetta book left off. In this one, the good doctor travels to Richmond, Virginia, ...

BOSTON — Best-selling writer Patricia Cornwell accused her former money managers of improperly investing $89 million of her money and making illegal campaign donations that brought the FBI to her door ...

She’s the hero of Quantum, the thriller from best-selling author Patricia Cornwell which is set to launch a new series. Known for her Scarpetta novels, this new chapter finds Cornwell going into the ...

WALTHAM, Mass.— Author Patricia Cornwell- whose riveting and wildly popular crime novels have made her one of the world’s best-selling writers- will be at Brandeis University on April 8 for a preview ...

Mystery novelist Patricia Cornwell was awarded nearly $51 million today in a lawsuit against her old financial management team, so one of the world's bestselling writers should be able to buy back the ...

Patricia Cornwell is back in Richmond. And in her imagination, so is Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the fictional medical examiner and master sleuth whom Cornwell has written into a major literary success.

Novelist Patricia Cornwell scored a $51 million judgment Tuesday against her former financial gurus — and jurors didn’t need a forensic examiner to see she was getting fleeced. The Boston Federal ...

Patricia Cornwell inks deal with Lifetime Patricia Cornwell has inked a deal with Lifetime to adapt two of her crime novels -- "At Risk" and the upcoming sequel, "The Front" -- into movies, marking a ...

“Chaos” is the latest Patricia Cornwell novel featuring the iron-willed forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta. By Marilyn Stasio In Cornwell’s latest novel, the medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is worried ...

Bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell and her new book “Red Mist.” Best selling crime author Patricia Cornwell poses in her home in New York in this Oct. 27, 2005, file photo. (AP) Super ...