![]() On arrival in Britannia, Gaius Petreius Ruso’s needs are simple. You wrote a great post called ‘ First drown your ape‘ about Roman doctors. Welcome Ruth! We first met on Helen Hollick’s ‘The Wonder of Rome‘ blog hop last year. She is currently working on the next book and also spends several weeks every summer wielding an archaeological trowel in search of inspiration. ![]() The sixth in the series, ‘Tabula Rasa,’ is published this year. It was published as ‘Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls,’ in the UK, where The Times recommended it as one of their ‘Seven best thrillers for Christmas’. ![]() The first book in her crime series featuring Roman Army medic Ruso and his British partner, Tilla, was a New York Times bestseller under the title ‘Medicus’. Finally escaping into fiction, she won the Fay Weldon section of the BBC’s End of Story competition in 2004. As a backup she learned typing and shorthand, in the mistaken beliefs that people would always need secretaries and that she might be quite good at it. Ruth Downie read too much Jane Austen at university, emerged with an English degree and a plan to get married and live happily ever after. Writing in an alternat(iv)e history setting. ![]()
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