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. 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. (Mar.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. Downie's auspicious debut sparkles with beguiling characters and a vividly imagined evocation of a hazy frontier. Tilla plots her escape as she recovers from her injuries, and just when Ruso becomes attached to her, she runs away, complicating his personal life and his investigation.
Gaius becomes a reluctant detective, but his sleuthing threatens to get him killed and leaves him scant time to work on the first-aid guide he's writing to help salvage his finances. Meanwhile, young women from the local bordello keep turning up dead, and nobody is interested in investigating. In a moment of weakness, after a straight thirtysix-hour shift at the army hospital, he succumbs to compassion and rescues an injured slave girl, Tilla, from. Gaius rescues and buys an injured slave girl, Tilla, from her abusive master, but she refuses to talk, can't cook and costs more to keep than he can afford. Within days he finds himself landed with a female corpse that nobody else wants to deal with, and a local slave girl who won’t talk to him. His quarters are filthy and vermin-filled, and his superior at the hospital is a petty tyrant. MEDICUS: Roman Army medic Gaius Petreius Ruso has come to Britannia to make a fresh start. Gaius Petrius Ruso, a military medicus (or doctor), transfers to the 20th Legion in the remote Britannia port of Deva (now Chester) to start over after a ruinous divorce and his father's death. Medicus Investigation is a series of historical fiction books written by bestselling author of historical fiction, mystery and thriller novels Ruth Downie. The protagonist is a put-upon Roman doctor stationed in Britannia. Ruth Downie Medicus Series Ebook Bundle: An Eight Book Bundle Kindle Edition by Ruth Downie (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 13 ratings Collects books from: The Medicus See all formats and editions Kindle 91. The salacious underside of Roman-occupied Britain comes to life in Britisher Downie's debut. First-time novelist Ruth Downies new book is Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire. The Medicus Investigation series is a series of historical mystery novels by British novelist Ruth Downie.
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