Of course, there’s also something else missing: money. But it isn’t the kind of work he’d had in mind Ruso is tasked with hunting down a missing tax man named Julius Asper. Ruso and Tilla, now newlyweds, have moved back to Britannia, where Ruso’s old friend and colleague Valens has promised to help him find work. 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. This is everything we ve come to expect from our charming, luckless hero.Ĭaveat Emptor / Ruso and the River of Darkness
That is, until Severus, the family s chief creditor, winds up dead, and the real trouble begins Engrossing, intricate, and as always wonderfully comic, Ruth Downie s latest is a brilliant new installment in this irresistible series. With Tilla getting icy greetings from his relatives, Lucius’s brother inlaw mysteriously drowned at sea, and the whole Ruso family teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, it s hard to imagine an unhappier reunion. But the reception there is not what Ruso has hoped for: no one will admit to sending for him, and his brother Lucius is hoping he ll leave. Having received a note consisting only of the words COME HO ME! Ruso has reluctantly, of course pulled up stakes and brought T illa to meet his family. At long last, Gaius Petreius Ruso and his companion, Tilla, are headed home to Gaul. Downie in the UK, and this book is available there under the title Ruso and the Root of All Evils.
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The third novel in the acclaimed Gaius Petreius Ruso series by the New York Times bestselling Ruth Downie this time set in ancient Gaul. Persona Non Grata / Ruso and the Root of All Evils Terra Incognita shines light on a remote corner of the ancient world, where Ruso s luck is running short again. Soon both Ruso s and Tilla s lives are in jeopardy, as is the future of their burgeoning romance.
Worse, he is honor bound to try to prove the man innocent and the army wrong by finding another culprit. Ruso, filling in for the demented local doctor, is appalled to find that Tilla is still spending time with the prime suspect. These hinterlands are the homeland of Ruso s slave, Tilla, who has scores of her own to settle there: Her tribespeople are fomenting a rebellion against Roman control, and her former lover is implicated in the grisly murder of a soldier. But the edge of the Roman Empire is a volatile place the independent tribes of the North dwell near its borders. With that in mind, he has volunteered for a posting with the army in Britannia s deepest recesses a calmer place for a tired man. After his long and reluctant investigation of the murders of a handful of local prostitutes, Ruso needs to get away. It is spring in the year 118, and Gaius Petreius Ruso has been stationed in the Roman occupied province of Britannia for nearly a year. Terra Incognita / Ruso and the Demented DoctorĪrmy doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso strikes out for the uncivilized borders of Roman Britain in this highly anticipated sequel to Ruth Downie’s New York Times bestselling debut. With a gift for comic timing and historic detail, Ruth Downie has conjured an ancient world as raucous and real as our own.’
Who are the true barbarians, the conquered or the conquerors? It’s up to Ruso certainly the most likeable sleuth to come out of the Roman Empire to discover the truth. A few years earlier, after he rescued Emperor Trajan from an earthquake in Antioch, Ruso seemed headed for glory now he’s 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. Now he has a new problem: a slave who won’t talk, can’t cook, and drags trouble in her wake. 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. No separate player needed, no CDs, no downloads just press play! ‘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. An all in one format, the player and content are combined in one 2 ounce unit and it comes with everything you need to start listening immediately. Playaway is the easiest way to listen to a book on the go. Medicus / Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls
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