Book description
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 .
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.
