“Guaranteed to quicken the pulse” Kirkus Reviews
Criminal defence lawyer Helena Flemming has fallen out of love with John Eisenmenger.
Devastated, Eisenmenger finds solace and distraction by reluctantly returning to his life as a forensic pathologist.
His first case reunites him with DI Beverley Wharton; a woman who is notoriously cunning and who refuses to take no for an answer. Beverly is jealous of Helena and has history with Eisenmenger, but when she receives some devastating personal news she delves deeper into her cases and realises she needs help...
A young petty criminal is found stabbed leaving an elderly mother devastated, and the obvious suspect is a man who had threatened to kill him just hours before.
There is pressure on Beverley to close the case, but she is not so keen to follow orders, especially when Eisenmenger discovers that the weapon is a surgical scalpel.
For once she decides to follow her instincts rather than politics at the station.
There is enough circumstantial evidence to charge a local thug with murder but something doesn’t add up and Beverly risks everything to find the truth.
With all this going on, the accidental death of a motorcyclist seems trivial, except that the body seems to have too many organs …
Eisenmenger is immediately consumed by this disturbing discovery and when he realises Helena is missing, he and Beverly stumble upon an evil enterprise that puts both their lives in grave danger...
“Outstanding” Publishers Weekly
“A page-turning plot, deeply flawed characters, and a slam-bang ending” Booklist
“McCarthy excels at capturing his readers and not letting go until the shocking conclusion … Will appeal to fans of John Harvey's crime novels” Library Journal
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.
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