Ruth downie ruso books in order5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Ruso has been living with Tilla, a “Barbarian” from Britannia, for the past two years. ![]() He had the option to sign on again when he got back from Gaul, and Valens assured Ruso he would want to. (It was now June, and his contract with the Legion would be up in January. (Ancient Gaul included the area that is modern France.) He was granted a medical discharge. ![]() Come home, brother.” Since Ruso can’t do anything else for six weeks, he agreed, even though his home in the south of Gaul was over a thousand miles away from his current post in Deva. Since the author also highlights the food they eat, it seems inevitable, even without murder, that they would need a lot of fixing up.) Valens also delivered a letter to him marked urgent, that read “Lucius to Gaius. His friend and colleague Valens prescribed that he must go easy on it for a good six weeks, “and no wine, of course.” (Part of the fun of this series is learning about the various “cures” used by people in Ancient Rome. This book begins with hapless do-gooder Roman Army medic Gaius Petreius Ruso breaking his foot while trying to save a child who had been dropped into the river by five drunk legionaries. This is the third installment of an entertaining historical crime fiction series set in the Ancient Roman Empire. ![]()
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