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"Black Notice" is the 10th installment of Patricia
Cornwell's popular forensic murder mystery series. This time
out, the author ventures into the dark psychological
landscape of chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta,
vulnerable and grieving over the murder of her longtime
lover Benton Wesley. While someone plots to undermine
Scarpetta's career, she must devote her energies to
unraveling the grizzly clues found on an unidentified
corpse. In this excerpt from our interview with Patricia
Cornwell, the author talks about the monsters, real and
imagined, that inhabit "Black Notice." Amazon.com's Tim
Appelo asked Cornwell about how Scarpetta is haunted by her
grief as much as by the crazed "wolfman" killer. Here is her
response.

You can find "Black Notice" at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399145087/entertainmentsit

and other titles by Patricia Cornwell at
Mystery & Thrillers

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Excerpts from Amazon.com's Interview
with Patricia Cornwell

"Black Notice" is a haunted book. It's sort of a modern-day
"Frankenstein," because you have a monster who's been
created by our society. The killer is like a badly-sewn-
together and hideous-to-behold creature. This is a story
about emotions that are somewhat taboo, which is very
traditional for gothic literature.

There are two monsters in this book: the serial killer and
the monster of unrealized emotions. If the characters don't
deal with these feelings, they'll be destroyed by them. By
the way, I would pit Scarpetta against Hannibal Lecter any
day of the week. I can tell you one thing: he wouldn't be
around for any sequels if she got hold of him!

I wore myself out with all the physics of fire and all the
forensics that I did in "Point of Origin," which I was
really pleased with, but I wanted to do something very
different with this one. I thought, "What would happen if I
wrote "Postmortem" now, being who I am, with all the
experience I've had?" If I did a book that was just flat-out
frightening, and very psychological, and not focusing quite
as much on the hardware but more on the feelings and evoking
a mood. So this book is an odyssey that takes you through
some quite dark places. It's very subterranean, and it's
full of nightscapes. So many of the scenes happen after
dark--it's a dark book. Remember the movie "Seven?" You felt
like it was never going to stop raining the rest of your
life when you were watching that movie, and that evoked a
mood that was very important to the story. In this book, you
feel you're in the middle of power outages and ice storms
and clouds moving across the face of the moon, and all of
that is a projection of the emotions going on inside the
people.

The full text of Amazon.com's interview with Patricia
Cornwell is at
Mystery & Thrillers

Featured in this e-mail:

"Black Notice"
by Patricia Cornwell
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399145087/entertainmentsit

"Point of Origin"
by Patricia Cornwell
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0425169863/entertainmentsit

"Postmortem"
by Patricia Cornwell
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671023616/entertainmentsit

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