A World Full of Weeping

A World Full of Weeping

by KeithMcCarthy (Author)

Synopsis

An invitation to spend a week or two with childhood friends seemed like the perfect way to help Helena's recovery from cancer treatment. Helena had grown up with the Hickmans, had spent many happy holidays with them, and the fact that they lived in a Castle surrounded by forest on the edge of a lake only made it seem all the more perfect as a rest cure. Then, a man is found burned to death in a car on the edge of the Castle estate and this seemingly irrelevant occurrence creates unexpected disturbances in the lives of all those living in the Castle. Helena and Eisenmenger, caught in the middle of this, cannot understand the reason for this, but more is to come for there are secrets in the Castle - secrets that are of profound importance not only the to the Hickmans, but also to Helena.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Publisher: Constable
Published: 25 May 2006

ISBN 10: 1845292170
ISBN 13: 9781845292171

Media Reviews
* 'Readers who don't get enough strong forensic medicine from the likes of Patricia Cornwell or Kathy Reichs... will welcome McCarthy who lays on the grisly detail with a practising doctor's detached eye.' Publishers Weekly * 'This richly gothic novel... uses the classic whodunit format of a closed circle of suspects to good effect...a potent mix.' Tangled Web * 'Pathologist McCarthy creates a dark, densely imagined world in the demanding tradition of P D James... he peoples it with characters who truly inspire pity and terror, and provides the most unsparing postmortem ever.' Kirkus Reviews
Author Bio
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. At present Keith is a Consultant Histopathologist in Gloucestershire where he lives with his wife and three daughters.