Not very long ago, he was married, a hero (he had saved the Emperor Trajan's life), and the elder son of a prosperous family in southern Gaul. Gaius Petrius Ruso is doctor serving with a Roman legion in Britain. With a gift for comic timing and historic detail, Ruth Downie has conjured an ancient world as raucous and real as our own. The first novel in the New York Times bestselling Gaius Petreius Ruso series. If only the locals would just stop killing each other and if only it were possible to find a decent glass of wine, and someone who can cook, Ruso's prospects would be a whole lot sunnier. It's up to Ruso to summon all his skills to investigate, even though the breakthroughs in forensic science lie centuries in the future, and the murderer may be hunting him down too. not to mention a serial killer stalking the local streets.īarmaids' bodies are being washed up with the tide and no one else seems to care. He has vast debts, long shifts, and an overbearing hospital administrator to deal with. The Gods are not smiling on army doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso in his new posting in Britannia. A serial killer is on the loose in Roman-occupied Britain, and Gaius Petreius Ruso is out to catch him.
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