Biography
Keith McCarthy was born in 1960 in Croydon, Surrey and educated first at Dulwich College, south-east London, and then at St. George’s Hospital Medical School. He entered specialist pathology training a year after achieving his primary medical degree, working mainly at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London. During his training he received a research Doctorate and became a Member of Royal College of Pathologists in 1995. His first Consultant post was at the Royal Marsden Hospital but a year later he moved to Gloucestershire where he has worked ever since. He is married with 3 daughters and lives deep in rural Gloucestershire close to the borders with Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
He started writing as a teenager, turning out the usual adolescent drivel and regards this period now as merely practising the skills required to write. During his medical training he necessarily wrote little but began again as a junior pathologist. His first completed novel saw the light in the early nineties, the next a few years later. This was the novel that he considered mature enough to be worthy of publication. He found an agent who tried to market this but who was unsuccessful. The next novel was considered unsatisfactory and was not presented for publication (although it has since been recycled); the one after this was rejected by all the publishers who saw it. By this time, and with a new agent, success came with the appearance of the following novel, A Feast of Carrion, which was published by Constable and Robinson in July 2003. Since then they have published its successors, The Silent Sleep of the Dying (June 2004) and The Final Analysis (May 2005).
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