Download e-book for iPad: Medicus (Medicus Investigation, Book 1) by Ruth Downie

By Ruth Downie

ISBN-10: 1596917741

ISBN-13: 9781596917743

Gaius Petrius Ruso is a divorced and down-on his success military health care provider who has made the rash determination to hunt his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, specifically Britannia. His arrival in Deva (more generally called Chester, England) does little to enhance his temper, and after a instantly thirty six hour shift on the military health center, he succumbs to a second of weak point and rescues an injured slave lady, Tilla, from the arms of her abusive owner.

Now he has a brand new challenge: a slave who won't speak and can't prepare dinner, and drags difficulty in her wake. sooner than he understands it, Ruso is stuck in the course of an research into the deaths of prostitutes understanding of the neighborhood bar. many years past, after he rescued Emperor Trajan from an earthquake in Antioch, Ruso appeared headed for glory: now he's dwelling between heathens in a vermin-infested bachelor pad and needs to summon all his forensic wisdom to discover a killer who should be after him next.

Who are the real barbarians, the conquered or the conquerors? It's as much as Ruso—certainly the main likeable sleuth to come back out of the Roman Empire—to notice the reality. With a present for comedian timing and old aspect, Ruth Downie has conjured an old global as raucous and genuine as our own.

Published within the united kingdom as Medicus (Ruso) and the Disappearing Dancing Girls.

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I didn’t imagine it,” said Tess. “Something with fingers caught hold of my ankle. ” Tess’s tense expression relaxed and lightened into a smile. She was fighting this. “I’m sorry, Mr. Clarke. I won’t be a spoilsport. And, after all, what did anybody expect? That’s what we’re here for, isn’t it? ” “But—” “There was something there, Mr. Clarke. ” Two doors opened into the hall, one at the left and one at the right. We looked toward the door at the left, because a light had been switched on there.

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Clarke. But I could be much more keen about a week end in the country if it weren’t such foul weather. Just look at those windows! ” 45 Clarke stared at her. ” “Certainly not. That house has been vacant for upwards of seventeen years. It will take more than a month to put it in anything like a decent state of repair. No, no, no. I was merely, like a crafty host, planning ahead. ” He drew out a pocket diary and leafed through the pages. “What would you say to a Whitsuntide party? Whitsunday, this year, falls on May 17th.

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