Preacher Boy by Gwyn GB

Author:Gwyn GB [GB, Gwyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chalky Dog Publishing
Published: 2021-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

As he watched the attractive forensics crime-scene manager, Dr Tanya Jones, get suited up ready to enter the flat, DS Salter felt almost guilty. ‘It’s not pleasant in there,’ he told her.

She smiled at him, but only out of politeness. ‘It’s okay. It’s my job,’ she replied, and he immediately felt chaste, as though he’d insulted her intelligence and experience. Of course it was her job; she must be used to stuff like this. How sexist had that comment sounded? He made a mental note not to say anything like that again to her. But even so, what she was going to find in there wasn’t your average deceased body. He’d have said the same thing, even if she’d have been a bloke. Inside the flat was the stuff of nightmares.

The SOCO team prepared to open the door. They had nets for the flies, which could still be heard buzzing around the flat, and would dive into the corridor again within seconds. Some of them would be euthanised and kept as vital entomological evidence, along with the scooped-up carcasses of their dead cousins on the floor. If they could see how many fly life cycles were present in the flat, it would help date the death.

As the door to the flat was pushed open, dozens of them rushed at freedom and light again and flew straight into the nets, although quite a few dodged their prospective captors and ended up buzzing at Jack and the rest of the team in the corridor. He swatted them away. The thought of one landing on him after what it had just been sitting on and eating turned his stomach.

Tanya Jones wore full-face protection, including an anti-odour mask, and was completely suited. She was still a little annoyed at DS Salter’s comment, like she was some fragile female he had to protect. She wasn’t sure why it annoyed her so much, but she thought it was probably because it was him who’d said it, with his overall machismo attitude. If DCI Barker or Dr Lane had made the same comment, she’d have just felt like they were keeping an eye out for her. Lots of police officers struggled with the smell; it was because they were literally in and out after about five minutes. Her team had to work with it sometimes for hours on end. They got used to it, although there was no doubt it was much more pleasant to wear an anti-odour mask. Nobody would breathe that stench by choice.

The presence of so many flies was indicative of what she might find inside. As she stepped into the hallway, her foot crunched on the carcasses of their dead predecessors. Just outside the door of the flat, Jack gave an internal shudder at the sound of her footsteps and the memory of what he’d seen.

‘The victim has been dead for weeks,’ she called out, ‘We’ve not only got adult flies, but dead adult flies.’ As Tanya proceeded, a photographer walked with her, taking images of the scene before them.

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