Ruth Galloway, forensic archeologist/detective and now single mother, is back in Elly Griffiths A Room Full of Bone – solving a new crime with Chief Inspector Harry Nelson. This fourth book has more personal angst than the first three in the series, and the characters seem to have become stereotypes: Ruth, the dowdy but intelligent professor, with questionable academic friends; Nelson, the macho crime fighter whose conscience only twinges when he remembers he cheated on his wife and fathered a daughter with Ruth.

This crime is based on bones again (Ruth is an expert on bones). The story has the requisite dead bodies and possible suspects but it is not as compelling as Griffiths other Galloway mysteries. A Room Full of Bones was easy to put down and forget to pick up again.

Clare Ferguson, where are you?

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