Patricia Cornwell

Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'Chicago Fire' on NBC

2013-02-26 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of Feb. 24 - March 2, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- � SERIES AND SPECIALS "American Idol"...

Dan Brown's book cover reveal: It's 'Da Vinci Code'-y!

2013-02-20 09:01:00

The cover design of Dan Brown's forthcoming novel, "Inferno," was revealed Wednesday. It pretty clearly resembles his mega-huge bestselling hit, "The Da Vinci Code," which introduced readers to Brown's hero,� renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon....

Would you pay $4,600 for a bad (rare) poem?

2013-02-20 11:10:00

An unpublished manuscript by the 19th century Scottish poet William Topaz McGonagall is up for auction at Bonham's this spring, and is expected to fetch something in the neighborhood of�$4,600, according to the Guardian. This price is not despite its...

What do Herbert Marcuse and Mark Zuckerberg have in common?

2013-02-20 13:24:00

To celebrate National Engineers Week -- of course you knew Feb. 17-23 is National Engineers Week, right? -- MIT Press interviews Matthew Wisnioski, author of their book "Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America." Inside...

Patricia Cornwell wins $50.9 million in suit against money manager

2013-02-19 12:20:00

Patricia Cornwell won a judgment of $50.9 million against her former financial managers in federal court in Boston on Tuesday. Cornwell is the author of the bestselling Kay Scarpetta mystery novels. Cornwell accused her former money management firm...

Mystery-thriller book review: 'The Crime of Julian Wells'

2012-08-30 16:34:00

Summer might be drawing to a close, but don't worry — there's still plenty of time to squeeze in a few more chills provided by new mysteries and thrillers from Karin Fossum, Tana French and Thomas H. Cook. * An Edgar Allan Poe Award and numerous...

Philip Roth to headline National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

2012-05-18 16:37:02

Tuesday's Talk Shows

2011-12-05 21:36:58

42 free excerpts in Penguin's holiday sampler

2011-12-26 16:34:51

Wednesday’s Highlights: 'Inside Nature’s Giants' on KOCE

2012-01-17 21:36:35

Thrillers, fantasy and science fiction

2011-12-04 00:00:00

The Affair A Reacher Novel Lee Child Delacorte Press, $28 Knuckle-busting crime-solver Jack Reacher returns with a story from his early years involving a murder near a military base and how he became a maverick hero. After the Apocalypse Stories...

Thursday's TV Talk Shows: Martha Stewart is a guest on 'Rachel Ray' and Rachel Ray is a guest on 'The View'

2009-11-11 21:34:24

Patricia Cornwell (author) Also: Stehpen Curry (NBA player) Bob Faw (NBC News correspondent) Craig Detweiler (screenwriter)

2013-03-18 17:14:04

Patricia Cornwell, author of the bestselling Kay Scarpetta mystery novels, in Boston after testifying against her former financial management company.

2013-02-07 00:00:00

Patricia Cornwell brings Kay Scarpetta back for another forensic thriller in "The Bone Bed." Dead bodies and murder - oh boy.

2012-10-17 14:29:34