Keith McCarthy

July, 1977....

Arthur Meadows has just returned home in his HGV from a long trip to southwest Europe....

Helena Flemming has fallen out of love with John Eisenmenger and wants their relationship to end....

John doesn't relish the prospect of being back on the treadmill, working within the NHS again, but he is unwilling to accept his boss' "death from natural causes" diagnosis....

Eisenmenger and Flemming find there is much more at stake than uncovering the identity of a murderer: there are scores to be settled, demons to be exorcised, and, not least, vengeance to be had....

In the beginning there were five identical murders - bodies eviscerated and organs scattered playfully around....

When Mark Hartmann is asked to perform a post-mortem on a lab assistant killed by cancer, everything looks straightforward....

An invitation to stay with childhood friends seems an excellent idea to aid Helena's recovery after her cancer treatment....

Policewoman Eva Perry goes deep undercover to help bring a vicious local crime ring to justice....

Sasha Grover-Williams hated her wealthy father's dubious business affairs - and ended up dead on a railway track. But did she jump or was she pushed? That's the burning question for Chief Inspector Beverley Wharton....