Friday Memes: A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths

 Happy Friday everybody!

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Beginning:

31 October 2009

The coffin is definitely a health and safety hazard. It fills the entrance hall, impeding the view of the stuffed Auk, a map of King's Lynn in the 1800s and a rather dirty oil painting of Lord Percival Smith, the founder of the museum.

Friday 56:

Nelson bets he knows which side Lord Smith would have been on. He's ambivalent himself -- he can't see any particular harm in the Royal Family (he was shocked when Ruth once referred to them as 'parasites') but he has always admired Cromwell's warts-and-all approach. And he likes the sound of the Earl of Manchester. He imagines him looking like Sir Alex Feguson.

This week I am spotlighting the fourth in the Ruth Galloway mystery series. I recently discovered the series am trying to catch up. A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths is book 4. Here's the description from Amazon:

In this thrilling mystery, “brilliant, feisty, independent” forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson investigate a seemingly cursed collection of Aboriginal skulls that are causing people to die from a mysterious fever—and the next person to fall ill is Nelson himself (Richmond Times-Dispatch).

When Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop, she finds the museum’s curator lying dead on the floor. Soon after, the museum’s wealthy owner is also found dead, in his stables.

DCI Harry Nelson is called in to investigate, thrusting him into Ruth’s path once more. When threatening letters come to light, events take an even more sinister turn. But as Ruth’s friends become involved, where will her loyalties lie? As her convictions are tested, Ruth and Nelson must discover how Aboriginal skulls, drug smuggling, and the mystery of the “Dreaming” hold the answers to these deaths, as well as the keys to their own survival.