Medicus
A Novel of the Roman Empire
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Narrated by:
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Simon Vance
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Ruth Downie
About this listen
Now he has a new problem: a slave who won't talk and can't cook, and drags trouble in her wake. Before he knows it, Ruso is caught in the middle of an investigation into the deaths of prostitutes working out of the local bar.
A few years earlier, after he rescued Emperor Trajan from an earthquake in Antioch, Ruso seemed headed for glory: now he's living among heathens in a vermin-infested bachelor pad and must summon all his forensic knowledge to find a killer who may be after him next.
Who are the true barbarians, the conquered or the conquerors? It's up to Ruso (certainly the most likeable sleuth to come out of the Roman Empire) to discover the truth. With a gift for comic timing and historic detail, Ruth Downie has conjured an ancient world as raucous and real as our own.
©2007 Ruth Downie (P)2007 Tantor Media Inc.Critic Reviews
"Downie's auspicious debut sparkles with beguiling characters and a vividly imagined evocation of a hazy frontier." (Publishers Weekly)
"Fans of Alexander McCall Smith will delight in this series debut set in Roman-occupied Britain and featuring wry army doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso." (Booklist)
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- Anonymous User
- 10-08-2021
A+ presentation A + voice great character portral
Great narration, it was never jarring and remained constant. story was well crafted, it moved along painting a vivid and good ending.
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- Luzelle Cockburn
- 18-01-2024
I love the characters
I really enjoy these books, I have listened to the books numerous times! The way the characters stumble along is so realistic!
The narration definitely fits the "Roman" style!
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- Nancy
- 13-09-2024
good characters
the story's good and overall quite interesting. the characters are likable which helps a great deal! the narrater reads well too.
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- Kevin
- 01-07-2018
ER meets Midsomer Murders meets ancient Rome
I really like this, it's a refreshingly different tale of ancient Rone and though I appreciate this is a work of fiction the vague historical facts twisted into the tale are a great idea.
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- Matt Baker
- 11-11-2023
Enjoyable Historical Fiction Crime Novel
I listened to this novel on Audible as it was free with my subscription and I like a good historical fiction novel.
I'm glad I did, as it's well written and well narrated.
If you are in the mood for a whodunnit novel that is not too dark and has warmth and heart at the core of the story, with some interesting tellings of life in the time of the Roman Empire thrown in, then this book will not disappoint.
I'm looking forward to the next book in the series.
Four stars from this reader.
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- Mrs Mutley
- 26-02-2023
Entertaining who done it
A very entertaining story full of puns and wonderful witticisms. I enjoyed it very much
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- Styx
- 21-04-2023
fascinating and funny
very entertaining and funny. the main characters struggle with the army and a foreign people was brilliant.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-11-2018
Mills and Boon
This was beautifully read by Simon Vance but the story was an awful mills and boon of a Roman Doctor who buys a beautiful slave who he falls in love will. Spare me.
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