|z Contributor biographical information |u |a 'First published in the United Kingdom in 2006 by Michael Joseph'-T.p. |a New York : |b Bloomsbury : |b Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, |c 2007, c2006. |a Medicus : |b a novel of the Roman Empire / |c Ruth Downie. |a DLC |c DLC |d BAKER |d BTCTA |d C#P |d YDXCP 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.

Barmaids' bodies are being washed up with the tide and no one else seems to care.

not to mention a serial killer stalking the local streets. 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. It’s a very different sort of book from the Medicus series and clearly not a mystery, but I’ve been fascinated to see how the story’s come alive as my colleagues have pitched in with their own imaginative take on events.**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** A serial killer is on the loose in Roman-occupied Britain, and Gaius Petreius Ruso is out to catch him. Although several of the characters appear all the way through, each of us handles the story from a different viewpoint and we all have very different styles, so for example while I’m seeing events through the eyes of a slave girl in Boudica’s household, the tales involving battles are written by people who are far more skilled at that sort of thing than I am (two of them are re-enactors who’ve actually worn the kit, done the marching and handled the weaponry). It’s somewhere between 140,000 and 160,000 words long – I forget exactly, sorry – and about 20,000 of them are mine. Hi Kathryn! “A Year of Ravens” is a collection of supposedly stand-alone tales by 7 authors that actually fit together to tell the story of the Boudican rebellion.

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