The Complete Patricia Cornwell Companion

This book is a definite must for any fan of Patricia Cornwell as well as for anybody just starting to read her books. It gives you information for just about everyone (and every place) in all of her books in both the Kay Scarpetta series and the Andy Brazil series, as well as her non-fiction work about Jack the Ripper and Ruth Graham. But newcomers, beware. There are spoilers in this book (and it tells you that right from the start). I've read all of her Scarpetta books, and still found information in this book that I either missed or just didn't pay attention to the first (or tenth) time that I read them. And there were also things in there that I had forgotten about. The information for the main characters is extremely detailed, and there is information about all of the one-book characters as well. There is a section for forensic terminology broken down by the book titles, as well as a section about all of the places that Kay visits. I didn't pay too much attention at the time to the information on the Andy Brazil series, because I hadn't read any of those books. Now that I'm starting on those, I'll have to go back to the book and read the sections on those books. All in all, I would most definitely recommend this book for anybody who has read or is reading any of her books.