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

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A Room Full of Bones is another engrossing instalment in Elly Griffiths' series featuring archaeologist Ruth Galloway. She knows there’ll be photographers at the museum, but with any luck she can hide behind Superintendent Whitcliffe. Also the author seems to have a fetish with cheating since 99% of her characters are cheating on their partners and worst of all I as a reader can't feel the connections because the author does a poorly job writing about them! 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. Suspicions about the pressure group known as the Elginists and the rather aristocratic racehorse trainer, Lord Danforth Smith ensure Nelson keeps digging and when a second death within a week connected to the museum occurs, also attributed to natural causes, Nelson knows that that he is finally getting closer to the truth.

Forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway stirs up fears and passions among the living even as she unearths Iron Age remains. It introduces quite a lot of interesting crime/mystery aspects, all seemingly unrelated until Griffiths quite cleverly weaves them together.

Yes, instead of Nelson and Ruth being on the job, the book had a lot of focus of the owners of the museum, the Smith family. Dr Ruth Galloway and DI Harry Nelson are developing into well rounded characters with plenty happening in each book to keep the reader engaged. She’s an uncommon, down-to-earth heroine whose acute insight, wry humor, and depth of feeling make her a thoroughly engaging companion. in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter.

BUT, it doesn't dominate the storyline, and the solution was something I had never thought of, and really very clever. As an Australian, I found some of this plot great but was a little perplexed about the ignorance of the modern day English characters. But she never lets herself forget that she is dealing with people who once lived and were once loved.

Previous Smiths have been rather more serious-minded and evidence of their philanthropy is everywhere in Norfolk.