We are introduced to a roman army medical officer named Gaius Petrius Ruso trying to keep up the appearances for his bankrupt family without letting the knowledge of how bankrupt his father slipped out. In her series opener, Ruth makes use of tensions that exist between British locals and Roman army to create a fantastic historical setting and a thrilling page-turning mystery. Medicus is the debut novel in Medicus Investigation series by Ruth Downie. Ruth was born and raised in the beautiful West Country in North Devon and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She is famously known as the author of Medicus Investigation series. But the books are informative, funny, and entertaining, and I fully intend to keep reading the series.Ruth Downie is an English author of mystery & thrillers and historical fiction books. Moreover, the Ancient Roman Empire is a cruel and violent place, and Ruso is so often clueless he usually ends up on the wrong end of the stick. Altogether, Ruso was very unhappy, and stuck in a politically sensitive quagmire.Įvaluation: I am thoroughly enjoying the “adventures” of Ruso and Tilla, even though both of them are frustrating and prone to miscommunicating with one another. While Ruso was occupied with all of that, Tilla went to her former home, which was nearby, and met up again with her former boyfriend. Ruso said he would do his best, musing “he had a sloppy health service to shape up, a politically sensitive postmortem to carry out, and a deranged colleague. So in essence, Ruso needed to solve the crime. But the Prefect didn’t want the natives to think the man arrested was just a scapegoat, which would arouse their ire. The Prefect believed Thessalus was innocent but had gone insane, telling Ruso “we need to get him to withdraw his confession before anyone hears about it, and find out who told him how the victim was killed.” The Prefect intended to arrest a native believed actually to have committed the crime. The problem was that the regular medic, Thessalus, confessed to the murder. Ruso was to examine the body of Felix and write up his findings in a “politically correct” way. Ruso had one more complicated job as well, regarding the recent murder of Felix, a soldier at the post. Ruso quickly discovered that “a country outpost serving six hundred men run in the same way as a legionary hospital serving five thousand.” And this was not a positive difference. When they arrived, Ruso found out that the regular medic was ill, so the fort Prefect assigned Ruso to fill in, and while he was at it, to get the infirmary in shape. She also claimed it was a beautiful area. Tilla came from the region around Ulucium and she wanted to visit her home. Ruso was persuaded to go in part because he was frustrated with his assignments in Deva, and in part because of his girlfriend, the former slave Tilla. “There’s a couple of centuries going up to help revamp the fort, fix their plumbing, and encourage the taxpayers.” Ruso explained to his best friend and colleague Valens: Hapless Roman Army medic Gaius Petreius Ruso has volunteered to leave his post in Deva, where he has served the past eight months, and travel with a contingent of the army to the northern borders of Roman Britannia to a fort at Ulucium. This is the second installment of a historical crime fiction series set in the Ancient Roman Empire.
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