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Patricia Cornwell novels coming to cable TV

Tue Apr 15, 2008 2:22am IST
 
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NEW YORK, April 14 (Reuters Life!) - Novels by best-selling U.S. author Patricia Cornwell will be adapted for television, a cable network said on Monday.

Lifetime Television, a U.S. cable network that targets women, has optioned Cornwell's 2006 mystery "At Risk," and its forthcoming sequel "The Front," which will be published in May by G.P. Putnam's Sons.

Neil Schubert, a vice president for publicity at Lifetime, said the network will next look for a writer to craft screenplays for the novels. He said there was no timeline for the original movies to run on television.

Financial details for the options were not released.

"At Risk" features the character Monique Lamont, a politically ambitious Massachusetts district attorney who develops a program to use advanced DNA technology to solve decade old crimes.

(Reporting by Timothy Gardner, editing by Patricia Reaney)

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