Keith McCarthy Books in Order

When Nikki Exner is raped and murdered at St. Benjamin's Museum of Pathology, the police move quickly on an obvious suspect. Helena Flemming asks John Eisenmenger to re-examine the evidence, and the body tells a different story.

A young laboratory worker appears to have died of multiple aggressive cancers, and the pathologist examining her is blackmailed into silence. Helena Flemming and John Eisenmenger dig into a case of fraud, fear, and possible corporate murder.

A new killing mirrors a notorious series of evisceration murders, but John Eisenmenger spots differences others miss. As Martin Pendred becomes the focus of a manhunt and Helena disappears, the old case turns even deadlier.

Helena Flemming hopes a stay with old friends at a lakeside castle estate will help her recover from cancer treatment. Then a man is found burned to death in a car, and the visit turns into a twisted investigation.

A murdered boy pulled from a river leads John Eisenmenger and Helena Flemming into a village case that keeps getting worse. A convicted paedophile, bodies in a garden, and buried abuse shatter the place's calm surface.

In 1975 Thornton Heath, retired hard-man Charlie Daniels dies on his allotment and the verdict says natural causes. Dr Lance Elliot is not convinced, and more deaths lead him toward secrets in the local horticultural association.

A woman found with a shotgun beside her could be a suicide, or a very clever murder. While John Eisenmenger works as a hospital locum, suspicious natural deaths begin to point toward a darker medical scandal.

As his relationship with Helena breaks down, John Eisenmenger buries himself in work and finds a deeply disturbing puzzle. Missing people, street violence, and an autopsy that makes no anatomical sense slowly converge into one grim case.

After Lance Elliot's father is arrested for arson, the feud with his neighbor looks embarrassing but manageable. Then the neighbor turns up murdered in his antiques shop, pinned to a chair by an old sword.

In 1977, Lance Elliot's father is helping at a local school to impress Ada Clarke. When teachers start turning up dead, Lance suspects a serial killer, and Inspector Masson would rather he kept out of it.

A severed male head in a farmyard is bad enough. When a headless female body turns up soon after, Beverley Wharton and John Eisenmenger realize they are hunting a serial killer.

Consultant pathologist Philip Reed knows death as a medical fact, until he meets Sebastian Marjolin, a man who seems to claim it as an identity. Strange events soon make Philip wonder whether the impossible might be close at hand.

A trader returns from southwest Europe carrying something far more dangerous than cloth. When a young couple are murdered in Gloucester, Beverley Wharton faces a case where disease, violence, and human cruelty keep colliding.

Artist Leo Bannister hears voices, grieves his dead wife, and builds a memorial no one should ever see. When old family hatreds flare, police and a young pathologist are drawn into a nightmare around his daughter Simone.

While officer Eva Perry goes undercover against a local crime ring, a rash of bizarre suicides pulls Beverley Wharton back toward John Eisenmenger. His own inquiry into a colleague's sudden death suggests the cases may be connected.

A string of unexpected hospital deaths raises the fear that someone on the staff is killing patients. Beverley Wharton and John Eisenmenger must decide which deaths are natural, and which have been carefully helped along.

Twenty-two years after Sasha Grove-Williams died on a railway track, a troubling message from the old coroner reopens the case. Beverley Wharton and John Eisenmenger find corruption, violence, and powerful people who still want the past buried.

The finance director of a failing hospital is found beheaded, and the case is anything but simple. Detective Sergeant Julie Bishop and Detective Inspector Alexandra Todd investigate while politics and personal strain crowd every step.

Alice Du Gard is stuck in an abusive marriage and drawn toward a new colleague at the research lab where she works. After she discovers a tortured drug dealer's body, the violence around her becomes impossible to ignore.