With a gift for comic timing and historic detail, Ruth Downie has conjured an ancient world as raucous and real as our own. Who are the true barbarians, the conquered or the conquerors? Its up to Rusocertainly the most likeable sleuth to come out of the Roman Empireto discover the truth. A few years earlier, after he rescued Emperor Trajan from an earthquake in Antioch, Ruso seemed headed for glory: now hes living among heathens in a vermin-infested bachelor pad and must summon all his forensic knowledge to find a killer who may be after him next. The most recently released novel in the Medicus Investigation series was Prima Faciewhich was released in 2019. The Medicus Investigation series started in 2006 with the novel Medicus / Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls. Before he knows it, Ruso is caught in the middle of an investigation into the deaths of prostitutes working out of the local bar. Ruth Downie is the author of the Medicus Investigation series which currently consists of 9 novels. Ruso and the Demented Doctor (2008) aka Terra Incognita 3. Now he has a new problem: a slave who wont talk and cant cook, and drags trouble in her wake. Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls (2006) aka Medicus 2. His arrival in Deva (more commonly known as Chester, England) does little to improve his mood, and after a straight thirty six hour shift at the army hospital, he succumbs to a moment of weakness and rescues an injured slave girl, Tilla, from the hands of her abusive owner. Gaius Petrius Ruso is a divorced and down-on his luck army doctor who has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia.
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