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

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In some ways this edition feels less structured or perhaps more far flung with plot, but I didn't mind. Michele has figured out that Nelson is Kate’s father and has forbidden him from having any contact with Ruth or Kate, except professional. 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.

She knows there’ll be photographers at the museum, but with any luck she can hide behind Superintendent Whitcliffe.Max, a fellow archaeologist who featured in book two, The Janus Stone, turns back up in Ruth’s life in A Room Full of Bones.

This story picks-up with Ruth still privately questioning her skills as a mother, and being slightly taken-aback when the house next door is sold and she meets her new neighbour. We were crossing Titchwell Marsh in North Norfolk when Andy (an archaeologist) mentioned that prehistoric people thought that marshland was sacred ground.

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Also, there’s a surreal, dreamlike quality to part of the story as it touches on Aboriginal culture and beliefs. The museum in King's Lynn is preparing for an unusual event - the opening of a coffin excavated from the site of a medieval church. There are even the other police officers, whose private lives are starting to form part of the fabric of each book.I will admit I’m reading these books for the soap opera like relationship of the main characters above all else. I didn’t think that this new book was significantly different from my ‘Italy’ books but, when she read it, my agent said, ‘This is crime.

Looking into the death and the group behind the letters leaves DCI Nelson and his team stretched to the limit with the altogether more pressing matter of tackling the drugs which are proliferating the county of Norfolk. As her convictions are tested, Ruth and Nelson must discover how Aboriginal skulls, drug smuggling, and the mystery of "The Dreaming" hold the answer to these deaths, as well as the keys to their own survival.Dr Ruth Galloway and DI Harry Nelson are developing into well rounded characters with plenty happening in each book to keep the reader engaged.