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...search for a scientist to fill the position, known as the Patricia Cornwell Conservation Scientist, will begin as soon as the endowment is complete, Lie said. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will match Cornwell??s gift...
...Cornwell??s novels, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a forensic examiner, uses forensic technology to examine crime scenes and solve crimes. Cornwell has written 16 Scarpetta novels, the last of which, “Scarpetta,” will be released...
...Cornwell??s past gifts, such as a VSC 5000 video spectral comparator that allows conservation scientists to look at paper specimens under different lights, relate to her interest in forensics...
...Cornwell??s hallmarks are everywhere in this novella. For instance, Harvard is prominently featured. Characters meet at the Faculty Club—“a handsome Georgian Revival building with a grey slate roof”—and the Fogg Art Museum, where, in real life, Cornwell has helped bring paintings by the man she claims was Jack the Ripper. And of course, the token Harvard student answers a question with “unnecessary snottiness...
However, it is unclear whether Scarpetta could have saved Cornwell??s latest work, “At Risk.” The short novella, which was originally a 15-part serialization in The New York Times Magazine, can be seen as the culmination of the gradual shift away from the “Postmortem” standard. Cornwell is the finest crime writer of her generation, but the crime is an afterthought in “At Risk.” An old woman was murdered a long time ago in Tennessee, but the mystery is easily solved...