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

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It is forbidden to copy anything for publication elsewhere without written permission from the copyright holder. 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. As DI Harry Nelson and his team descend to investigate the death of museum curator Neil Topham, Ruth finds herself in the unenviable position of being the person who found the body (this is starting to become a habit!

Dr Ruth Galloway and DI Harry Nelson are developing into well rounded characters with plenty happening in each book to keep the reader engaged.

But she won’t remember it,’ Ruth wailed to her best friend Shona, herself five months pregnant and glowing with impending maternity. It's a sensitive issue and a very interesting one, and I heard about it for the first time during the last year of my BA. In this book I was so worried about the mystical and magical re curses and such and was so glad that eventually a scientific explanation was provided as a possible probably probable explanation.

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. So based on that, this entry in the wonderful Dr Ruth Galloway series would only rate three stars because the mystery is barely 50% of the story. The imagery of snakes is common to both medieval Christianity and Australian dreamtime stories and Elly Griffiths utilises this to full spooky effect has more than one character experiences terrifying hallucinations and portents of death. The series has won the CWA Dagger in the Library, and has been shortlisted three times for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.

In some ways this edition feels less structured or perhaps more far flung with plot, but I didn't mind. Griffiths applies a light touch, her Norfolk setting is admirably gloomy and Galloway is appealingly unglamorous. Now her feelings about Erik are rather more complicated, but that doesn’t stop his voice popping into her head at alarmingly regular intervals. Elly Griffiths is the author of the Ruth Galloway and Brighton mystery series, as well as the standalone novels The Stranger Diaries, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, and The Postscript Murders. It would actually be a far more interesting book if DCI Nelson [who really is a comic sketch version of a Northerner, constantly railing at things he perceives to be southern or young or unmanly] actually died.

The storyline is ridiculous, the characters are stereotypes who behave in the silliest of ways, the writing is clunky and the pace is sluggish. Ruth doesn’t believe in an afterlife which, in her opinion, is all the more reason to treat human relics with respect. DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Waitomo District Library for the loan of A Room Full of Bonesby Elly Griffiths for review. Most of the exhibits in this museum were acquired by Lord Smith in the course of a fascinating life.As well as the museum there is the Smith wing in the hospital and the Smith Art Collection at the castle. The story of Ruth, Nelson, the various members of the police, Cathbad the local Druid who always seems to be in the middle of everything, and now a visitor from Australia are all developed further.