Ruth Downie
Memento Mori
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Ruso, a Roman army medic living a life of bucolic domesticity with the family of his British wife, receives a desperate plea from ...Read Review
Vita Brevis
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Gaius Ruso, Roman medical officer and reluctant investigator of murders, is back for the seventh installment of the delightful Medicus series. This time ...Read Review
Tabula Rasa: A Crime Novel of the Roman Empire (The Medicus Series)
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From the first book in Ruth Downie’s Gaius Ruso series, I fell in love with the gruff but good-hearted Roman medical officer ...Read Review
Semper Fidelis: A Novel of the Roman Empire
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Set in 2nd-century Roman Britain during Hadrian’s rule, this interesting read started out slow for a mystery but picked up speed about ...Read Review
Ruso and the River of Darkness
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The fourth novel in a series of historical mysteries set in the second century A.D., Caveat Emptor takes place in Roman Britain. ...Read Review
Terra Incognita
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This is the second installment in the trials and tribulations of our memorable hero, Medicus Gaius Petreius Ruso, a Gaul serving with the ...Read Review
Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls
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Britannia, 117 AD. Having just joined the hospital staff at the Roman legionary fortress of Deva (Chester), world-weary surgeon Gaius Petreius Ruso examines the ...Read Review