Patricia Cornwell was born Patricia Carroll Daniels on June 9, 1956 to Sam and Marilyn Daniels, an appellate lawyer and homemaker respectively. She has two brothers, Jim and John.

Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta novels are getting the TV treatment. Following a multiple-outlet bidding war, Blumhouse Television and Jamie Lee Curtis ‘ Comet Pictures have landed the TV ...

Patricia Cornwell took up flying because one of her characters flies. There's always that kind of overlap. "I created my characters, but they've also created me," Cornwell told Teichner.

Patricia Cornwell is a difficult woman to faze. And no wonder. The best-selling author of the Kay Scarpetta novels has sold a staggering 100 million books worldwide, but her early years were tough ...

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 ...

Best-selling crime writer Patricia Cornwell compiled an “enemies list” and sent it to a police detective in Watertown, Mass., where Cornwell has an estate, court documents show.

A federal judge has granted a request for a new trial for the New York-based financial management company that lost a highly publicized $50.9 million civil judgment last year to Patricia Cornwell ...

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.

Still, Cornwell has been delving deeper into her characters' minds with each new book, and "Scarpetta" won't alter that trend. "I'm very interested in what motivates people, why they do what they ...