A Room Full of Bones Paperback by Elly Griffiths

Product Details

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart (2013-02-05)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 352 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780771036040
• Item Weight: 283.5 grams
• Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.2 x 0.9 cm

Now in paperback, the highly acclaimed fourth book in the bone-chilling series by Elly Griffiths.

Set in Norfolk, England, A Room Full of Bones embroils, once again, brainy Ruth Galloway, in a crime tinged by occult forces. On Halloween night, the Smith Museum in King's Lynn is preparing for an unusual event -- the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop. But when forensic archaelogist Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise, she finds the curator, Neil Topham, dead beside the coffin. Topham's death seems to be related to other uncanny incidents, including the arcane tactics of a group called the Elginists, which aims to repatriate the museum's extensive collection of Aborigine skulls; the untimely demise of the museum's owner, Lord Smith; and the sudden, dangerous illness of DCI Harry Nelson, who Ruth's friend Cathbad believes is lost in The Dreaming -- a hallucinogenic state central to some Indigenous Australian beliefs. Something must be done to set matters right and lift Nelson out of the clutches of death, but will Ruth be able to muster herself out of a state of guilt and foreboding in order to solve the mystery in time?

About the Author

ELLY GRIFFITH's Ruth Galloway novels are inspired by the work of her husband, who gave up a job in finance to train as an archaeologist, and by her aunt, who lives on the Norfolk coast and who filled her niece's head with the myths and legends of that area. Griffiths and her husband now have two children (twins) and live near Brighton.