Keith McCarthy

Keith McCarthy is a crime fiction author and English pathologist best known for writing the “Eisenmenger-Flemming Forensic Mysteries” Series. As Lance Elliot, he has written the Dr. Lance Elliott series of crime mysteries. McCarthy was born in Croydon in 1960 and went to college in South East London’s Dulwich College, before he proceeded to St George Hospital Medical School. Once he had graduated with his medical degree, he entered specialist pathology training and then worked with London’s Royal Marsden Hospital. While still training, he got his Ph.D. and in 1995 he got his membership in the Royal College of Pathologists. After spending a year as a consultant at the Royal Marsden Hospital, he was posted to Gloucestershire and has been working there ever since. He has been practicing pathology for more than three decades and enjoys writing crime thrillers and has branched out into screenwriting for TV and film. Since Keith now practices pathology on a part-time basis he has more time to write and golf. He currently lives in Gloucestershire close to the Worcestershire and Herefordshire.