Medicus
  • Published:
    Mar-2007 (Hardcover)
    Mar-2008 (Paperback)
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    Print / eBook / Audio
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  • Main Genre:
    Historical Mystery
  • Time Period:
    Ancient Rome
  • Pages:
    416
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THE BELOVED FIRST BOOK IN A NEW MYSTERY SERIES STARRING A BELEAGUERED ARMY DOCTOR IN ROMAN-OCCUPIED BRITAIN.

Divorced and down on his luck, Gaius Petreius Ruso has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. In a moment of weakness, after a straight thirty-six-hour shift at the army hospital, he succumbs to compassion and rescues an injured slave girl, Tilla, from the hands of her abusive owner.

Now he has a new problem: a slave who won't talk, can't cook, and drags trouble in her wake. Before he knows it, Ruso is caught in the middle of an investigation into the deaths of prostitutes working out of the local bar. Now Ruso must summon all his forensic knowledge to find a killer who may be after him next.

With a gift for comic timing and historic detail, Ruth Downie has conjured an ancient world as raucous and real as our own.
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    •  
    • Mar-2008
    • Bloomsbury
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1596914270
    • ISBN13: 9781596914278
    •  
    • Mar-2018
    • Createspace
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1984117610
    • ISBN13: 9781984117618
    • First Edition
    • Mar-2007
    • Bloomsbury
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1596912316
    • ISBN13: 9781596912311
    •  
    • Dec-2008
    • Bloomsbury
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1596917741
    • ISBN13: 9781596917743
    •  
    • Mar-2007
    • Tantor Media
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1400153638
    • ISBN13: 9781400153633
    •  
    • Mar-2007
    • Tantor Media
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1400133637
    • ISBN13: 9781400133635
    •  
    • Mar-2007
    • Tantor Media
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1400103630
    • ISBN13: 9781400103638
    •  
    • Dec-2008
    • Playaway
    • Playaway
    • ISBN: 1606407090
    • ISBN13: 9781606407097
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    • Jun-2007
    • Thorndike Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 078629602X
    • ISBN13: 9780786296026
    • Large Print



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