Medicus - Ruth Downie
Category: Mystery
Tags: Mystery, Historical Fiction
Medicus A Novel of the Roman Empire By: Ruth Downie Narrated by: Simon Vance Series: The Roman Empire, Book 1 Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 05-03-2007 Language: English Publisher: Tantor Audio, AKA: Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls (2006), 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. His arrival in Deva (more commonly known today as Chester, England) does little to improve his mood, and after a 36-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. Now he has a new problem: a slave who wont talk and cant 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., A few years earlier, after he rescued Emperor Trajan
