'Astonishing...there's no other crime writer like her'
- The Times
'Accomplished'
- Financial Times, Books of the Year
'Slick, fast-paced and brilliant'
- Heat
'Cutting-edge'
- Sun
'A pioneer of the genre of forensic psychological thriller'
- BBC
'America's most stimulating and chilling writer of crime fiction'
- The Times
'Devilishly clever'
- Sunday Times
'She is a brilliant writer and I was absolutely gripped'
- Mail on Sunday
'The top gun in this field'
- Daily Telegraph
'Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns'
- Mirror
'The Agatha Christie of the DNA age'
- Express
'One of the best crime writers writing today'
- Guardian
'Few writers match Patricia Cornwell when it comes to writing crime and her latest Scarpetta novel is one of her best'
- Daily Express
'When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell'
- New York Times Book Review