Grand Central will publish Patricia Cornwell‘s memoir TRUE CRIME on May 5. The publisher writes that “Cornwell excavates her own life, detailing her traumatic childhood being raised by neglectful parents, her father abandoning the young family on Christmas day, her mother being institutionalized twice, an abusive foster family, and developing a parental relationship with evangelist Billy Graham’s wife Ruth.” Karen Kosztolnyik, vp and executive editorial director, fiction at GCP and Catherine Burke, deputy managing director of Little, Brown and executive publisher for commercial along with Sphere Fiction publisher Tilda Key acquired the world rights from Esther Newberg at CAA.
