Blow Fly
DR. Kay Scarpetta moves the tiny glass vial close to candlelight, illuminating a maggot drifting in a poisonous bath of ethanol. At a glance, she knows the exact stage of metamorphosis before the creamy carcass, no larger than a grain of rice, was preserved in a specimen vessel fitted with a black screw cap. Had the larva lived, it would have matured into a bluebottle Calliphora Vicina, a blow fly. It might have laid its eggs in a dead human body’s mouth or eyes, or in living person’s malodorous wounds. “Thank you very much,” Scarpetta says, looking around the table at the fourteen cops and crime scene technicians of The National Forensic Academy’s class of 2003. Her eyes linger on Nic Robillard’s innocent face. “I don’t know who collected this form a location best not to contemplate at the dinner table, and preserved it with me in mind….but.” [download]
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