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Violence
Some
A murder investigation in a museum setting; some supernatural elements are suggested
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking
Emotional Intensity
Some
The question of who has the right to the bones of the dead; the specific weight of colonial collecting practices
What this book is about
The curator of a natural history museum in Norfolk is found dead in a room full of bones — including a collection of Aboriginal remains from Australia that are the subject of a repatriation dispute. Ruth Galloway investigates while also dealing with questions of who owns human remains and what obligations cultural institutions have to the living descendants of the people their collections contain. Elly Griffiths's fourth Ruth Galloway novel is her most directly engaged with contemporary cultural politics — the repatriation issue is treated seriously and from multiple perspectives.
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fourth of the Ruth Galloway series
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