Tabula rasa : a crime novel of the Roman Empire
Downie, Ruth, 1955-2014
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The medicus Ruso and his wife Tilla are back in the borderlands of Britannia, this time helping to tend the builders of Hadrian's Great Wall. Having been forced to move off their land, the Britons are distinctly on edge and are still smarting from the failure of a recent rebellion that claimed many lives. Then Ruso's clerk, Candidus, goes missing. A native boy thinks he sees a body being hidden inside the wall's half-finished stonework, and a worrying rumour begins to spread. When the soldiers ransack the nearby farms looking for Candidus, Tilla's tentative friendship with a local family turns to anger and disappointment. It's clear that the sacred rites to bless her marriage to Ruso will have to wait. Tensions only increase when Branan, the family's youngest son, also vanishes. He was last seen in the company of a lone and unidentified soldier who claimed he was taking the boy to see Tilla.
Main title:
Tabula rasa : a crime novel of the Roman Empire / Ruth Downie.
Author:
Downie, Ruth, 1955-, author
Imprint:
New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Collation:
332 pages ; 21 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9781632861047 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTION
Language:
English
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BRN:
1805290