Ruth Downie

Memento Mori

By Ruth Downie - Published 2018

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Ruth Downie - Published 2016

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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)

By Ruth Downie - Published 2014Published 2014-10-09

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Ruth Downie - Published 2013

Genres:

MilitaryMystery/Crime

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

By Ruth Downie - Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Ruth Downie - Published 2008

Genres:

MilitaryMystery/Crime

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

By Ruth Downie - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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