Ruth Downie

A Novel of the Roman Empire

1 - Medicus (Mar-2007)
2 - Terra Incognita (Mar-2008)
3 - Persona Non Grata (Jul-2009)
4 - Caveat Emptor (Jan-2011)
5 - Semper Fidelis (Jan-2013)
6 - Tabula Rasa (Aug-2014)
7 - Vita Brevis (Jul-2016)

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  Medicus
  

  • Mar-2007
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  A Novel of the Roman Empire - 1
  

  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 Emp...

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  Terra Incognita
  

  • Mar-2008
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  A Novel of the Roman Empire - 2
  

  IN THE HINTERLANDS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, GAIUS PETREIUS RUSO SEEKS REST ... ONLY TO FIND ANOTHER MURDER. Following her widely acclaimed, New York Times bestselling debut, Medicus, Ruth Downie sends beleaguered army doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso to the u...

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  Persona Non Grata
  

  • Jul-2009
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  A Novel of the Roman Empire - 3
  

  At long last, Gaius Petreius Ruso and his companion, Tilla, are headed home to Gaul. But with Tilla getting icy greetings from Ruso's relatives, a family member having mysteriously drowned at sea, and the whole Ruso household teetering on the edge of...

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  Caveat Emptor
  

  • Jan-2011
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Novel of the Roman Empire - 4
  

  In her fourth novel, Ruth Downie brings to life the corruption and treachery of Roman-occupied Britain, as it closes in on her winsome leading man. Gaius Petreius Ruso and his new wife Tilla have moved to the town of Verulamium, where a tax man named...

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  Semper Fidelis
  

  • Jan-2013
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Novel of the Roman Empire - 5
  

  Back at his post as a doctor in the Twentieth legion in Roman-occupied Britain, Ruso uncovers a new danger even closer to home than the neighboring barbarians. As mysterious injuries, and even deaths, begin to appear in the medical ledgers, it's c...

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  Tabula Rasa
  

  • Aug-2014
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  A Novel of the Roman Empire - 6
  

  The medicus Ruso and his wife, Tilla, are back in the borderlands of Britannia, where he is tending the builders of Hadrian's Great Wall. Having been forced to move off their land, the Britons are distinctly on edge and are still smarting from the fa...

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  Vita Brevis
  

  • Jul-2016
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Novel of the Roman Empire - 7
  

  Ruso and Tilla's excitement at arriving in Rome with their new baby daughter is soon dulled by their discovery that the grand facades of polished marble mask an underworld of corrupt landlords and vermin-infested tenements. There are also far too man...

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  Memento Mori
  

  • Mar-2018
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  The eighth gripping novel in the bestselling Medicus series, in which Ruso and Tilla investigate the death of the wife of Ruso's friend in the sacred hot spring of Aquae Sulis. A scandal is threatening to engulf the popular spa town of Aquae Sulis...

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  PRIMA FACIE
  

  • Jul-2019
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  A novella from the author of bestseller Medicus, featuring reluctant investigator Ruso and his partner Tilla. A tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal in Roman Gaul.It's AD 123 and the sun is shining on southern Gaul. Ex-military medic Ruso and his B...

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