Keith McCarthy was born in 1960 in Croydon, Surrey and educated at Dulwich College, and then St George's Hospital Medical School. He worked for a number of years as a pathologist at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London, but now lives in Gloucestershire. He is married and has three daughters.

Eisenmenger-Flemming Forensic Mysteries

• A Feast of Carrion (2003)
• The Silent Sleep of the Dying (2004)
• The Final Analysis (2005)
• A World Full of Weeping (2006)
• The Rest Is Silence (2007)
• With a Passion Put to Use (2008)
• Corpus Delicti (2009)

Writing as Lance Elliot

• Murder Plot (2008)
• Dying to Know (2009)