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. TABULA RASA was chosen as one of the Best Books of 2014 by Crime Always Pays. 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). With a gift for comic timing and historic detail, Ruth Downie has conjured an ancient world as raucous and real as our own and a hero readers will root for through every adventure. When the boy accused of spreading the rumours goes missing, the tension between the soldiers and the locals threatens to erupt into a full-scale rebellion. In the New York Times bestselling Medicus series, Roman occupied Britannia is beset by crime, and army doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso is determined to catch the. It’s somewhere between 140,000 and 160,000 words long – I forget exactly, sorry – and about 20,000 of them are mine. 2019 Rubicon a Hwa Short Story Collection Prima Facie A Crime Novella of the. by (author) Kate Quinn, Eliza Knight, Russell Whitfield, Christian G. 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. Search - List of Books by Ruth Downie Rubicon A HWA Short Story Collection. (2008) Persona Non Grata / Ruso and the Root of All Evils (2009) Caveat Emptor / Ruso and the River of Darkness (2010) Semper Fidelis (2013) Tabula Rasa (2014) Vita Brevis (2016) Memento Mori (2018) Prima Facie (2019) Short Stories/Novellas Book Covers The Bear and the Wolf (With: S.J.A. Ruth is the author of nine mysteries featuring Roman Army medic Gaius Petreius Ruso and his British partner Tilla. Books by Ruth Downie: A Year of Ravens, A Song of War.
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