Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Curling Up With a Cornwell

It would probably be better than a reading a Globe.... 

"Mystery novelist accuses her manager of betrayal" by Milton J. Valencia  |  Globe Staff, January 09, 2013

It is a tale of an alleged betrayal, fraud, of high-rollers, multimillion-dollar homes, a helicopter, a lost Ferrari, a rare book collection, and political donations to Hillary Clinton.

It has all the drama and ­intrigue that would befit a tale by Patricia Cornwell, the award-winning American crime writer, widely known for her series of novels featuring the heroic medical examiner, Dr. Kay Scarpetta.

Only, this is not about ­Scarpetta, and it is not in one of Cornwell’s novels. This is about her own life, playing out in a trial in federal court in Boston....

Cornwell, a 56-year-old native of Florida who has lived in Greater Boston for the last six years, has been open about her struggles with depression and bipolar disorder and the abuse she says she suffered in foster homes growing up, has had her share of real-life drama.

A romantic affair in the 1990s with then-married FBI agent Margo Bennett made headlines after Bennett’s ­estranged husband sought to kill the agent and her church pastor, enraged over what he termed her lesbian affair....

A former newspaper reporter who has pursued her own inves­tigation into the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper, Cornwell has earned at times more than $10 million a year for her novels and nonfiction pieces....

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RelatedCourt told Patricia Cornwell’s donations illegal

UPDATEPatricia Cornwell testifies in suit vs. her accounting firm