On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

Quote by Patricia Cornwell

S. Cornwell shifted back to a first-person perspective in the Scarpetta novel Port Mortuary (2010). He paid a fine.

Her books have sold more than 100 million copies. Kay Scarpetta a medical examiner.