Forensics

This time I read a non-fiction book. Val McDermid is a crime writer and she also wrote Forensics The Anatomy Of a Crime. Each chapter has a different area of forensic medicine. The first chapter was about bugs. The age of maggots can help determine the time of death. The was a chapter on blood spatters and a chapter on DNA evidence. There was a chapter on finger prints. She lives in Scotland so many of the cases are from Scotland. She interviewed forensic experts all over the world. Several of her experts have done work on mass killings like the one in Kosovo. Several of the more famous forensic experts of the time were wrong. The last chapter was on court room drama. A forensic expert has information crucial to the trial but if the lawyers don't ask the right questions the truth does not come out. And sometimes juries make fickle decisions.