Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls: Roman Historical Mystery - Softcover

Downie, R. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141027258 ISBN 13: 9780141027258

Publisher: Penguin, 2007

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About this title

Synopsis:

Britannia, 117 AD Primitive, cold, and a touch damp. Welcome to the most remote corner of the Roman Empire. For army doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso, this overseas posting is no picnic. He has vast debts, a slave girl too clever for her own good and an overbearing hospital administrator to cope with...not to mention a serial killer stalking the local bar. Washed-out dancing girls are being washed-up with the tide and everyone expects Ruso to investigate, even though the breakthroughs of forensic science lie centuries in the future. Will the gods smile on him before he too falls prey to the murderer? If only it were possible to find a good Falernian wine in Britannia, life would seem so much rosier - and perhaps the locals might stop killing each other...

About the Author:

In 2004 R.S. Downie won the Fay Weldon section of BBC3's End of Story competition. Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls is her first novel.

She is married with two sons.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0141027258
• ISBN 13: 9780141027258
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480