As her convictions are tested, she and Nelson must discover how Aboriginal skulls, drug smuggling and the mystery of The Dreaming may hold the answer to these deaths, and their own survival.

I have to say I quite missed Ruth not being in the thick of things, but really enjoyed the mystical element. Her bestselling series of Dr Ruth Galloway novels, featuring a forensic archaeologist, are set in Norfolk. Nothing wrong with that but it falls down on characterisation which has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.There are even the other police officers, whose private lives are starting to form part of the fabric of each book. Erik Anderssen, Erik the Viking, Ruth’s tutor at university and for many years afterwards her mentor and role model. In this Ruth becomes involved in a literal 'room full of bones', that is a room in the basement of a museum owned by Lord Smith, whose grandfather collected aboriginal bones in Australia and took them home for his private collection.

Yes, instead of Nelson and Ruth being on the job, the book had a lot of focus of the owners of the museum, the Smith family. As an Australian reader, I found much of the archaeological content of A Room Full of Bones particularly fascinating, as the retention of indigenous human remains and other significant items within both Australian and international museum collections is an ongoing controversy. Another case for DI Nelson and it is not long before the dead body of the museum's owner lies dead in his stables too.I will admit I’m reading these books for the soap opera like relationship of the main characters above all else.