What Patricia Cornwell has said about Kay Scarpetta series
2 quotes · 1 episode · May 4, 2026
Patricia Cornwell, Crime novelist and creator of the Kay Scarpetta series, has been quoted on Kay Scarpetta series 2 times in 1 episode of Morbid, most recently on May 4, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Cornwell says Scarpetta is motivated by justice for the living, including preventing killers from striking again.
“Justice is for the living. It's not for the dead”
Morbid: True Crime: A Sit Down With Patricia Cornwell (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 49:23
Cornwell says the rise of CSI and competitors taught her never to assume she had arrived.
“Never think that you've arrived that you don't have to try as hard”
Morbid: True Crime: A Sit Down With Patricia Cornwell (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 1:07:39
Episodes
True Crime: A Sit Down With Patricia CornwellMorbid · May 4, 2026 · 1 h 12 min
Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell talks with Morbid hosts Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley about her memoir True Crime, personal safety, autopsies, Jack the Ripper and the Scarpetta TV series.
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