FORENSICS draws on interviews with top-level professionals ground-breaking research and Val
McDermid's own experience to lay bare the secrets of this fascinating science. And along the
way she wonders at how maggots collected from a corpse can help determine time of death how a
DNA trace a millionth the size of a grain of salt can be used to convict a killer and how a
team of young Argentine scientists led by a maverick American anthropologist uncovered the
victims of a genocide.
