Agent: Emma Thawley, rights director at Quercus (U.K.). Puzzle solvers may find the clues too subtle, but all will enjoy Ruth’s largely self-aware sardonic perspective on life, death, and relationships. Harry Nelson, all take summer holiday trips to the vicinity of the site of the murder and dig, where they encounter a host of suspect fellow academics and locals, including someone who sends Ruth warning text messages.

Single mother Ruth, along with her toddler daughter, Kate, and various others, including Kate’s father, Det. Dan has excavated the bones of a “Raven King,” who may be Arthur Pendragon. Ruth, a forensic archeologist and teacher, learns of the death by fire of a college friend and colleague, Dan Golding, the day before receiving a letter from Dan requesting her professional opinion. But as Ruth’s friends become involved, where will her loyalties lie? As her convictions are tested, she and Nelson must discover how Aboriginal skulls, drug smuggling and the Aboriginal ritual of The Dreaming may hold the answer to these deaths – and be the key to their own survival.Old bones and Anglo-Saxon culture combine with fresh murder and contemporary hate groups in Griffiths’s intricately plotted fifth Ruth Galloway mystery (after 2012’s A Room Full of Bones). When threatening letters come to light, events take an even more sinister turn. These two deaths could be from natural causes but DCI Harry Nelson isn’t convinced, and it is only a matter of time before Ruth and Nelson cross paths once more. In this thrilling mystery, brilliant, feisty, independent forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson investigate a seemingly cursed. Soon the museum’s wealthy owner lies dead in his stables too. Set in Norfolk, England, A Room Full of Bones embroils, once again, brainy Ruth Galloway, in a crime tinged by occult forces.

But then Ruth finds the body of the museum’s curator lying beside the coffin. Now in paperback, the highly acclaimed fourth book in the bone-chilling series by Elly Griffiths. A ROOM FULL OF BONES is a pleasing read, perhaps tending more to the cosy style of crime fiction than earlier instalments in the series, but is certainly. It is Halloween in King’s Lynn, and forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway is attending a strange event at the local history museum – the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop. ‘A wonderfully rich mix of ancient and contemporary’ Guardian The fourth beguiling Dr Ruth Galloway mystery. She is used to long-dead bodies, but a fresh corpse in the middle of a museum is a new challenge. Halloween night, and the dead are closer than ever for Dr Ruth Galloway. WINNER OF THE 2016 CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY.

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