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Keith McCarthy
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Keith McCarthy is a pathologist and writer of crime fiction, known for his Eisenmenger-Flemming Forensic Mysteries. He also writes under the name Lance Elliot.
Full Series List in Order
An Eisenmenger - Flemming Forensic Mystery
1 - Feast of the Carrion (Sep-2003)2 - Silent Sleep of the Dying (Sep-2004)
3 - The Final Analysis (Jul-2005)
4 - A World Full of Weeping (Jul-2006)
5 - The Rest Is Silence (Dec-2007)
6 - With a Passion Put to Use (Aug-2008)
7 - Corpus Delicti (Jan-2010)
8 - Soul Seeker (Apr-2011)
9 - The Taste of Wormwood (Oct-2012)
10 - A Furnace Far Too Hot (Feb-2017)
A Lance Elliot Mystery
Dying to Know (Jul-2010)Nor All Your Tears (Mar-2012)
Book List in Order: 16 titles
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Feast of the Carrion
- Sep-2003
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Forensic science and law enforcement do not prove to share the same conclusions in this darkly plotted debut novel by Keith McCarthy, himself a practicing pathologist. His suspenseful and ingeniously twisted tale opens inside the walls of the venerab...
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Silent Sleep of the Dying
- Sep-2004
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Mark Hartmann, a consultant pathologist, is married to a barrister and the son-in-law of a judge. His secret vice is compulsive gambling, and mounting debts are starting to threaten his marriage. When he is asked to perform an autopsy on Millicent Sw...
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The Final Analysis
- Jul-2005
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The author of
The Silent Sleep of the Dying offers a chilling new mystery about a cold case involving twin brothers--one dying in prison convicted of being a serial killer, and the other still free and suspected by some of committing the crim... -
A World Full of Weeping
- Jul-2006
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An invitation to spend time with childhood friends -- the Hickmans in their fairy-tale castle in a forest by the lake -- seems the perfect rest cure for solicitor Helena Flemming after cancer treatment. But when a man is found burned to death in ...
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The Rest Is Silence
- Dec-2007
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The routine forensic examination of a boy's body washing up from a meandering river reveals that he has been murdered. Meanwhile, the investigation of a convicted paedophile in a nearby village leads to the discovery of five decaying bodies in his ga...
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With a Passion Put to Use
- Aug-2008
- / Law Enforcement
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A John Eisenmenger and Helena Flemming Forensic Mystery - When John Eisenmenger is unwilling to accept his bosss death from natural causes diagnosis on an autopsy, he goes to old friend DI Beverley Wharton. When this and other unnatural deaths lead t...
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Corpus Delicti
- Jan-2010
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Eisenmenger’s relationship with Helena Flemming has deteriorated to the point that Helena wants it to end, leaving Eisenmenger devastated. In order to cope, he throws himself back into his work as a forensic pathologist and is immediately consumed ...
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Dying to Know
- Jul-2010
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October, 1975. When Dr Lance Elliot receives a call from his elderly father to say he has been arrested for arson, he can hardly believe it. Especially when he discovers that the intended victim was his father’s neighbour, Oliver Lightoller, with w...
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Soul Seeker
- Apr-2011
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The newly promoted Chief Inspector Beverley Wharton once more turns to forensic pathologist John Eisenmenger to help with the discovery of a severed male head in a local farmyard. When a headless -- but female -- body then turns up in a dustbin, they...
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Nor All Your Tears
- Mar-2012
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July, 1977. Lance's eccentric father, the retired Dr Benjamin Elliott, has been running a Horticultural Club at a local school, in an effort to impress his lady friend, Ada Clarke, who works there. One summer evening, Lance and his girlfriend Max tur...
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The Taste of Wormwood
- Oct-2012
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Arthur Meadows has just returned home from a trip to south-west Europe, supposedly bringing back a consignment of cloth, but actually bringing back something far more deadly. Meanwhile, a young Asian couple are murdered in their small house in Glouce...
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Your Last Best Friend
- Feb-2014
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This is an English mystery thriller about Sebastian Marjolin who is insane; the thinks he is the personification of death, which is clearly bonkers. Yet people keep dying around him. In Pathologist Dr Phil Reed he sees a natural adversary; Phil doesn...
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Memento Mori
- Sep-2014
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Leo Bannister is a mediocre and unknown artist and sculptor until the muses begin to talk in his head. Taking his beloved wife, Penelope and their daughter, Simone, Leo flees from his jealous father-in-law Martin Waldeyer, leaving behind the memor...
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A Furnace Far Too Hot
- Feb-2017
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When policewoman Eva Perry goes deep undercover to help bring a vicious local crime ring to justice, both she and her boss - Chief Detective Inspector Beverley Wharton - know there are huge risks involved. A series of unexplained and bizarre suicides...
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A Kiss Before Killing
- Mar-2018
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In the wake of several unexpected deaths at the hospital, Dr Claire Woodforde suspects there is a killer amongst the staff. As Detective Chief Inspector Beverley Wharton and her new sergeant Tom Bayes begin to investigate, they too start to wonder if...
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To Mourn A Mischief
Sasha Grove-Williams hated her wealthy father's dubious business affairs -â€" and ended up dead on a railway track. But did she jump or was she pushed? That's the burning question for Chief Inspector Beverley Wharton. She and her pathologist lover Dr...