A Room Full of Bones: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 4

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But one of the biggest draws is the whole theme of spirituality that is a pronounced undercurrent in each volume. All the usual characters are here including Nelson and things remain as awkward as ever between him and Ruth. This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use.

This review and others are also published on Twitter, Instagram and my webpage https://sandysbookaday. Yet it would have been a darker and much more interesting book if Griffiths had just killed him off suddenly and then seen where all the pieces landed. A Room Full of Bones also develops ongoing character storylines and relationships, including that between Ruth and DI Nelson, who is the father of her one-year-old daughter, Kate. An Australian theme and the issue of repatriation of aboriginal bones, a link to serpents and a curse. Historical crimes involving a Victorian child killer may hold the key to several contemporary deaths in this macabre outing for Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist.Nelson obviously loves Michelle and their two daughters and wants to save his marriage; however, he wants to be involved in Kate's life too.

One is a drugs connection; the other involves the Indigenous Australian skeletal heads and bones that are "owned" by the museum because one of the Smith ancestors bought them back after travelling to that continent. There is also som aboriginal spiritual issues going on, due to some bones kept in a private collection. At the same token the reader is plowed into another enticing mystery as a museums curator is found dead next to a coffin excavated from a medieval church. This fourth book in the Dr Ruth Galloway series is once again a hugely satisfying affair which manages to combine a well constructed mystery with another slice of personal drama in the lives of the quirky cast who surround our forensic archaeologist.Another great thing about these books is that they do not go too far deep that young adults cannot read them. He does get desperately ill in the middle, but there’s no dramatic tension here as such is the nature of the book he’s clearly going to survive. A Room Full of Bones has several mysteries running through it increasing Nelson's workload - that of the dead curator; another unexpected death; and an influx of cheap cocaine into the area. THE AUTHOR: Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway novels take for their inspiration Elly's husband, who gave up a city job to train as an archaeologist, and her aunt who lives on the Norfolk coast and who filled her niece's head with the myths and legends of that area.