Memento Mori
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Persona Non Grata
Ruso has been called home to Gaul and he brings Tilla to meet his family, who are being sued for bankruptcy. Their icy treatment of Tilla is the least of Ruso’s worries when the plaintiff in the bankruptcy suit winds up dead.
Caveat Emptor
Despite our hero’s best efforts to get himself fired from investigating the disappearance of a Roman tax collector in Britannia, he and Tilla find themselves trapped at the heart of an increasingly treacherous conspiracy involving the legacy of Boudica, the Rebel Queen.
Semper Fidelis
With Emperor Hadrian’s visit looming large, mysterious injuries, and even deaths, begin to plague the Twentieth legion in Roman-occupied Britain.
Tabula Rasa
Ruso and Tilla are helping to tend the builders of Hadrian’s Great Wall amid strife with the Britons when first Ruso’s clerk and then a native boy disappear.
Vita Brevis
Ruso and Tilla’s excitement at arriving in Rome with their new baby daughter is dulled by their discovery that the grand facades of polished marble mask a corrupt underworld. There are also far too many doctors—some skilled, but others positively dangerous.
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ISBN: HB: 978-1-62040-961-9
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Downie, Ruth, 1955- author.
Title: Memento mori: a crime novel of the Roman empire / Ruth Downie.
Description: New York: Bloomsbury, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017034339 | ISBN 9781620409619 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781620409626 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Romans—Great Britain—Fiction. | Murder—Investigation—Fiction. | Great Britain—History—Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D.—Fiction. | GSAFD: Historical fiction. | Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PR6104.O94 M46 2018 | DDC 823/.92—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017034339
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