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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 recently arrived clerk, Candidus, goes missing. A native boy thinks he sees a body being hidden inside the wall's half-finished stonework, and a worrying rumor 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. |
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Tending to the reluctant builders of Hadrian's Great Wall in the aftermath of a costly rebellion, the medicus Ruso and his wife, Tilla, investigate the disappearances of Ruso's clerk and the son of a native family amid rising tensions between the Britons and Romans. |
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Ruso, Gaius Petreius (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Ruso, Gaius Petreius (Fictitious character) |
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55 B.C.-449 A.D |
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Physicians -- Rome -- Fiction.
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Romans -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
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Missing persons -- Fiction.
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Missing persons. |
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Physicians. |
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Romans. |
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Great Britain -- History -- Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D. -- Fiction.
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Great Britain. |
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Rome (Empire) |
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Mystery Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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History.
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Downie, Ruth, 1955- Tabula rasa New York : Bloomsbury, 2014 9781608197088 (NjBwBT)bl2014026744 (OCoLC)860395680 |
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9781620403235 : $39.00 |
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1620403234 : $39.00 |
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