01744cam a2200313 i 4500 2759420166 TxAuBib 20260513120000.0 260504s2026||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781538778449 hardcover 1538778440 hardcover TxAuBib rda Cornwell, Patricia Daniels, author. True crime : a memoir / Patricia Cornwell. First edition. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2026. 464 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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 institutionalized twice, an abusive foster family, and developing a parental relationship with evangelist Billy Graham's wife Ruth. Cornwell depicts a harrowing hospitalization 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."-- Provided by publisher. 20260513. Women novelists, American. Detective and mystery stories, American. Abuse of children. Journalists United States Biography. Medical examiners (Law.) Autobiographies.