A combination of nosiness and a childish fascination with mud means she is never happier than when wielding an archaeological trowel. I fear this will upset some readers, but I left university with an English degree and a. ![]() Some people know from a very early age that they are going to be writers: I wasn't one of them. With a gift for comic timing and historic detail, Ruth Downie has conjured an ancient world as raucous and real as our own. February 2009 edit data Ruth is the author of nine mysteries featuring Roman Army medic Gaius Petreius Ruso and his British partner Tilla. About Ruth Downie I was lucky enough to be born in the West Country, in beautiful North Devon. 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. Ruth Downie is the author of the New York Times bestselling Medicus, Terra Incognita, Persona Non Grata, and Caveat Emptor.She is married with two sons and lives in Devon, England. 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. ![]() Before he knows it, Ruso is caught in the middle of an investigation into the deaths of prostitutes working out of the local bar. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Vita Brevis: A Crime Novel of the Roman Empire (The Medicus Series Book 7). Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Now he has a new problem: a slave who wont talk and cant cook, and drags trouble in her wake. Vita Brevis: A Crime Novel of the Roman Empire (The Medicus Series Book 7) - Kindle edition by Downie, Ruth. ![]() With a gift for comic timing and historic detail, Ruth Downie has conjured an ancient world as raucous and real as our own and a hero readers will. 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. In the New York Times bestselling Medicus series, Roman occupied Britannia is beset by crime, and army doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso is determined to catch the killers and restore order to the empire. 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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