Keith McCarthy Books In Order

Eisenmenger-Flemming Forensic Mysteries Books In Publication Order

  1. A Feast Of Carrion (2003)
  2. The Silent Sleep of the Dying (2004)
  3. The Final Analysis (2005)
  4. A World Full Of Weeping (2006)
  5. The Rest Is Silence (2007)
  6. With a Passion Put to Use (2008)
  7. Corpus Delicti (2010)
  8. Soul Seeker (2011)
  9. The Taste of Wormwood (2012)
  10. A Furnace Far Too Hot (2016)
  11. A Kiss Before Killing (2017)
  12. To Mourn a Mischief (2019)

Dr. Lance Elliot Books In Publication Order

  1. Murder Plot (2008)
  2. Dying to Know (2010)
  3. Nor All Your Tears (2011)

Bishop and Todd Mystery Books In Publication Order

  1. A Terrible Mistake (2020)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Your Last Best Friend (2011)
  2. Memento Mori (2014)
  3. Echoes of a Thing Long Gone (2020)

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Keith McCarthy Books Overview

A Feast Of Carrion

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 venerable St. Benjamin’s Museum of Pathology, where any death would send shock waves through the academic community. But the death of Nikki Exner is far from ordinary. Not only raped and murdered, she has been grotesquely executed. That the museum employs a formerly convicted rapist and drug addict, Tim Bilroth, leads the police easily to their prime suspect, and Bilroth s suicide while in their custody serves only to confirm his guilt. But Helena Flemming, the Bilroth family s solicitor, is not so sure, and to help her determine Tim s innocence, she calls upon former crack forensic pathologist John Eisenmenger. He performs a second autopsy on the victim s drawn and quartered body, and his findings stand almost completely at odds with the police department s medical examiner. As Eisenmenger and Flemming set out to discover who really killed Nikki Exner, they uncover a trail littered with drugs, blackmail, sexual favors, and suspects, and they fear that they and the police may not be on the same side.

The Final Analysis

At first there were five identical murders, the bodies eviscerated and the organs playfully distributed around. Beverly Wharton had been sure that the guilty man was Melkior Pendred an autistic and highly skilled mortuary assistant but her colleague, Sergeant Homer, had always thought she had caught the wrong man and it was his twin, Martin, who was responsible. With Melkior dying in prison, a sixth, apparently identical murder gives Homer now a chief inspector the perfect chance to settle a few scores. Martin Pendred is arrested but then released on a technicality after the intervention of his solicitor, Helena Flemming. Then he disappears. Another murder occurs and the hunt for Martin Pendred becomes intense. Beverly Wharton fearing for her career if it is shown Melkior Pendred was innocent calls on John Eisenmenger to help her. He had been the pathologist on the original murders and soon spots slight differences of technique between present and past murders. And when a fellow pathologist is murdered, Eisenmenger begins to guess what is going on. Then Helena disappears, kidnapped by Martin Pendred, and while Eisenmenger desperately searches for her he discovers the final piece of evidence that reveals just who is behind the latest murders.

A World Full Of Weeping

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 a car on the edge of the castle estate, the lives of the residents are bizarrely affected. Caught in the middle, Helena teams up with former forensic pathologist John Eisenmenger to try to figure out why. They soon learn that the castle harbors secrets damaging not only to the Hickmans but also to Helena herself.

The Rest Is Silence

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 garden. Between them, Helena Flemming and John Eisenmenger uncover abuse far more grotesque than anyone might have imagined, and reveal the murky depths beneath the idyllic surface of village life.

With a Passion Put to Use

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 to Atopia, a private clinic for the treatment of allergies run by a Dr Dreifus whose wife has just been found dead, it seems that there is more to this than death by natural causes…

Corpus Delicti

Continuing the Eisenmenger and Robinson forensic mystery series Eisenmengers 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 by a disturbing discovery.

Soul Seeker

The eighth book in the popular John Eisenmenger forensic mystery series – 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 must acknowledge that this is the work of a serial killer. However, this killer seems to have scientific knowledge and a desire to experiment with his victims in his search for the human soul…

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