Marksmanship
John Sutherland, 14 November 1996
Cause of Death
by Patricia Cornwell.
Little, Brown, 342 pp., £9.99, October 1996,0 316 87885 5 Show More
by Patricia Cornwell.
Little, Brown, 342 pp., £9.99, October 1996,
“... in rejecting the manuscript, advised Cornwell to change the sex of the male hero-narrator (Joe Constable) of the early draft of Postmortem. In the late Eighties this was flavour of the month advice. Another thing she did in the Eighties was to act as a ‘volunteer policewoman’, cruising in patrol cars in a semiofficial capacity. Judging by their initial ... ”