A Furnace Far Too Hot

Someone is always watching…

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.

Perry has already been abused physically and mentally in order to maintain her disguise and she knows there is more to come.

Yet she insists on carrying on.

But neither she nor Beverley are prepared for the horrific chain of events that are unleashed.

A series of unexplained and bizarre suicides forces Beverley into close contact with her former lover, the renegade forensic pathologist John Eisenmenger, who is already investigating the sudden suicide of his colleague Daisy Pemberton.

Eisenmenger conducts autopsies on the victims and discovers all their deaths are linked by the earrings they wear – the same design but in different pairings of colours.

He attends an inquest where he is confronted by the sinister Harry Cade whose family members have been killed or mutilated in a blow-torch attack by one of the suicide women, and who is wearing the same earrings.

When he convinces Beverley to pursue the trail of the earrings they not only resume their old love affair, but also become enmeshed in a frightening web of mental manipulation that brings them to the edge of being the instruments of their own violent deaths.

Author McCarthy uses his long professional experience of the autopsy bench, coroners’ courts and forensic examination to bring into vivid focus the malevolent world of unbalanced minds.

A Furnace Too Hot is the latest instalment to the thrilling Eisenmenger-Flemming Forensic Mystery series.

Praise for Keith McCarthy

“Pathologist McCarthy creates a dark, densely imagined world in the demanding tradition of P.D. James” - Kirkus

Keith McCarthy was born in Croydon, Surrey. Educated at Dulwich College and then at St George’s Hospital Medical School, he began practising pathology in 1985 and has done so ever since. At present Keith is a Consultant Histopathologist in Gloucestershire where he lives with his wife and three daughters. Other books in the Eisenmenger-Flemming Forensic Mystery series include, A Feast of Carrion, The Final Analysis, A World Full of Weeping, Corpus Delicti and The Rest is Silence.