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Synopsis
The medicus Ruso and his wife, Tilla, are back in the borderlands of Britannia, this time helping to tend the builders of Hadrian's Great Wall. Having been forced to move off their land, the Britons are distinctly on edge. Then Ruso's recently arrived clerk, Candidus, goes missing. A native boy thinks he sees a body being hidden inside the wall's half-finished stonework, and a worrying rumor begins to spread. When soldiers ransack the nearby farms looking for Candidus, Tilla's tentative friendship with a local family turns to anger and disappointment. Tensions only increase when Branan, the family's youngest son, also vanishes. As Ruso and Tilla try to solve the mystery of the two disappearances-while at the same time struggling to keep the peace between the Britons and the Romans-an intricate scheme involving slavery, changed identities, and fur trappers emerges, and it becomes imperative that Ruso find Branan before it's too late.
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About the Author
Ruth Downie is the author of the New York Times bestseller Medicus, as well as Terra Incognita, Persona Non Grata, Caveat Emptor, Semper Fidelis, and Tabula Rasa. She is married with two sons and lives in Devon, England. Visit her at ruthdownie.com.
Simon Vance, a former BBC Radio presenter and newsreader, is a full-time actor who has appeared on both stage and television. He has recorded over eight hundred audiobooks and has earned five coveted Audie Awards, and he has won fifty-seven Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, which has named him a Golden Voice.
From Booklist
The sixth Gaius Petreius Ruso novel finds the second-century-CE Roman medic and amateur sleuth working at the site of the great wall being built in Britannia under the auspices of the emperor Hadrian. Tensions between the native Britons and the Roman legions are running hot, with bigotry starting to trend toward violence. When a local boy says he knows of a body buried inside the wall, apparently put there while the person was still alive, speculation of murder and cover-up escalate. Also, Ruso’s clerk has gone missing—not unusual in itself, given the fellow’s lackadaisical work ethic—but a second disappearance, this one involving a local family with whom Tilla, Ruso’s native-born wife, has become friendly, makes Ruso wonder if something nefarious is going on. Written in simple, unadorned prose (no awkward attempts to ape period style), the book is a pleasure to read. The Ruso series might not be as well known as, say, Lindsey Davis’ longer-running Marcus Didius Falsco series, but it’s just as entertaining. --David Pitt
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- PublisherTantor Audio
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1494532786
- ISBN 13 9781494532789
- BindingAudio CD
- LanguageEnglish
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