Memoir Monday... and Get Your Scalpel Ready...

True Crime: A Memoir by Patricia Cornwell... From Goodreads: Patricia Cornwell finally tells the story that rivals all of the works that precede her own.

Patricia Cornwell is best known for her international bestselling thriller series about forensic pathologist Dr Kay Scarpetta. Every story comes from somewhere, and Scarpetta's began when Patricia Cornwell embedded herself in a morgue.

In this achingly honest memoir, Cornwell excavates her own life, detailing her traumatic childhood being raised by neglectful parents, her father abandoning the young family on Christmas day, her mother being institutionalised twice, an abusive foster family, and developing a parental relationship with evangelist Billy Graham's wife Ruth. Cornwell depicts a harrowing hospitalisation and near-death car accident. She unflinchingly shares overcoming obstacles that later gave her the ambition to become an award-winning police reporter. From there it was research in a medical examiner's office that would turn into a full-time job. She would become a forensic expert and worldwide publishing phenomenon.

Cornwell leaves no stone unturned in this deeply candid account of her life, offering inspiring insight into what made her into the international sensation she is today

I have devoured every single Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel and can't wait to read Patricia Cornwell's memoir! Just in this short blurb from Goodreads, I have learned so much about the author that I had no idea, such as the fact that her research to become an award-winning police reporter lead to her full time job as a medical examiner. I thought it was the other way around. How much of Patricia Cornwell is in Dr. Kay Scarpetta? I bet this look into the author's life will give us some insight into that. 

Make a note of this and add True Crime: A Memoir to your TBR list! Especially if you love Dr. Kay Scarpetta and Patricia Cornwell's medical thrillers. And if you haven't read any of Patricia Cornwell's, start now! You will not be disappointed.

Being published by Grand Central Publishing on May 5th, 2026!

Thank you to Grand Central Publishing for sending along a DRC for me to read and review! Look for my review coming soon...