Flesh House
“Doctor Isobel McAllister presiding. In attendance: DI Steel, DCS Bain, the Assistant Chief Constable, the Procurator Fiscal, a queasy-looking PC, an IB photographer, and old Doc Fraser with his hairy ears corroborating. Full house.
Isobel had 'rebuilt' Thomas Stephen on the larger of the two cutting tables, his meatless bones all arranged in the right order, the innards tucked in beneath the two halves of his ribcage. And right at the very top: the bruised and battered head. In all the year...s he'd been attending these things, it was probably the most surreal sight Logan had ever seen. A skeleton man with glistening innards and a human head.
DI Steel wrinkled her nose. 'What the hell is that smell?' Logan scowled at her. 'I showered, OK? Twice last night and three times this morning. It's that bloody protein processing plant, the grease sinks into your skin like fake tan.' Every time he blew his nose, the smell of rendering fat came flooding back, that and the mortuary's acrid formalin reek was making him queasy ...MoreLess
Isobel had 'rebuilt' Thomas Stephen on the larger of the two cutting tables, his meatless bones all arranged in the right order, the innards tucked in beneath the two halves of his ribcage. And right at the very top: the bruised and battered head. In all the year...s he'd been attending these things, it was probably the most surreal sight Logan had ever seen. A skeleton man with glistening innards and a human head.
DI Steel wrinkled her nose. 'What the hell is that smell?' Logan scowled at her. 'I showered, OK? Twice last night and three times this morning. It's that bloody protein processing plant, the grease sinks into your skin like fake tan.' Every time he blew his nose, the smell of rendering fat came flooding back, that and the mortuary's acrid formalin reek was making him queasy ...MoreLess
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