Medicus: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

Gaius Petrius Ruso is a divorced and down-on-his-luck army doctor who has made the rash decision to seek his fortune within an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. His appearance in Deva (additionally known as Chester, England) does little to boost his disposition, and after a straight thirty-six-hour shift at the army hospital, he succumbs to a moment of weakness and rescues an injured slave gal, Tilla, in the hands of her abusive owner.

Now he includes a new issue: a slave who won’t approximately Medicus: A Novel talk, can’t make, and drags trouble in her wake. Before he understands it, Ruso is definitely caught in the middle of an investigation into the fatalities of prostitutes working out of the local bar. A few years previously, after he rescued Emperor Trajan from an earthquake in Antioch, Ruso seemed headed for glory; today he’s living among heathens in a vermin-infested bachelor pad and must summon all his forensic understanding to discover a killer who could be after him next.

Who will be 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 uncover the truth. With a gift for comic timing and historical details, Ruth Downie has conjured an ancient world as raucous and genuine as our own.