Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/religion/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0016 407504 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/religion/engine/rss.php:0 Ruth Downie - Free Library Land Online - Religion https://religion.library.land/ ru Ruth Downie - Free Library Land Online - Religion DataLife Engine Prima Facie https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/519186-prima_facie.html https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/519186-prima_facie.html Prima Facie
]]> Tue, 10 Dec 2019 17:38:22 +0200 Caveat emptor mi-4 https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/190627-caveat_emptor_mi-4.html https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/190627-caveat_emptor_mi-4.html Caveat emptor mi-4
]]> Sun, 15 Nov 2015 09:48:47 +0200 Caveat Emptor https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/426461-caveat_emptor.html https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/426461-caveat_emptor.html Caveat Emptor
]]> Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:13:15 +0200 Vita Brevis https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/437095-vita_brevis.html https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/437095-vita_brevis.html Vita Brevis
Ruso and Tilla's excitement at arriving in Rome with their new baby daughter is soon dulled by their discovery that the grand facades of polished marble mask an underworld of corrupt landlords and vermin-infested tenements. There are also far too many doctors—some skilled—but others positively dangerous.

Ruso thinks he has been offered a reputable medical practice only to find that his predecessor Doctor Kleitos has fled, leaving a dead man in a barrel on the doorstep and the warning, "Be careful who you trust.†? Distracted by the body and his efforts to help a friend win the hand of a rich young heiress, Ruso makes a grave mistake, causing him to question both his competence and his integrity.

With Ruso's reputation under threat, he and Tilla must protect their small family from Doctor Kleitos's debt collectors and find allies in their new home while they track down the vanished doctor and find out the truth about the heiress's dead...]]> Sun, 27 Nov 2016 19:19:21 +0200 Semper Fidelis m-5 https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/196532-semper_fidelis_m-5.html https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/196532-semper_fidelis_m-5.html Semper Fidelis m-5
]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:58:54 +0200 Terra Incognita mi-2 https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/196535-terra_incognita_mi-2.html https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/196535-terra_incognita_mi-2.html Terra Incognita mi-2
]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:58:55 +0200 Medicus https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/426464-medicus.html https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/426464-medicus.html Medicus
]]> Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:13:18 +0200 Terra Incognita https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/426466-terra_incognita.html https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/426466-terra_incognita.html Terra Incognita
SUMMARY: In this highly anticipated sequel to Ruth Downie's New York Times bestselling debut, beloved army doctor Gaius Petrius Ruso strikes out for the uncivilized borders of Roman Britain, where he runs into murder and the ghosts of his vexingly beautiful slave Tilla's past.]]> Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:13:20 +0200 Memento Mori https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/372581-memento_mori.html https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/372581-memento_mori.html Memento Mori
The eighth gripping novel in the bestselling Medicus series, in which Ruso and Tilla investigate the death of the wife of Ruso's friend in the sacred hot spring of Aquae Sulis.


A scandal is threatening to engulf the popular spa town of Aquae Sulis (modern-day Bath). The wife of Ruso's best friend, Valens, has been found dead in the sacred hot spring, stabbed through the heart. Fearing the wrath of the goddess and the ruin of the tourist trade, the temple officials are keen to cover up what's happened. But the dead woman's father is demanding justice, and he's accusing Valens of murder.

If Valens turns up to face trial, he will risk execution. If he doesn't, he'll lose his children.

Ruso and Tilla do their best to help but it's difficult to get anyone—even Valens himself—to reveal what really happened. Could Ruso's friend really be guilty as charged?]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:46:21 +0200 Semper Fidelis: A Novel of the Roman Empire https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/426462-semper_fidelis_a_novel_of_the_roman_empire.html https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/426462-semper_fidelis_a_novel_of_the_roman_empire.html Semper Fidelis: A Novel of the Roman Empire
Back at his post as a doctor in the Twentieth legion in Roman-occupied Britain, Ruso uncovers a new danger even closer to home than the neighboring barbarians. As mysterious injuries, and even deaths, begin to appear in the medical ledgers, it's clear that all is not well amongst the native recruits to Britannia's imperial army. Is the much- decorated Centurion Geminus preying on his weaker soldiers? And could this be related to the appearance of Emperor Hadrian? Bound by his sense of duty and ill-advised curiosity, Ruso begins to ask questions nobody wants to hear. Meanwhile his barbarian wife, Tilla, is finding out some of the answers-and marked as a security risk by the very officers Ruso is interrogating. With Hadrian's visit looming large, the fates of the legion, Tilla, and Ruso himself hang in the balance.

About the Author

Ruth Downie is the author of the New York Times bestselling Medicus, as well as Terra Incognita, Persona Non Grata, and Caveat Emptor. She is married with two sons and lives in Devon, England.
]]> Wed, 27 Nov 2013 04:13:17 +0200 Tabula Rasa: A Crime Novel of the Roman Empire https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/426465-tabula_rasa_a_crime_novel_of_the_roman_empire.html https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/426465-tabula_rasa_a_crime_novel_of_the_roman_empire.html Tabula Rasa: A Crime Novel of the Roman Empire

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. 

As Ruso and Tilla try to solve the mystery of the two disappearances—while at the same time struggling to keep the peace between the Britons and the Romans—an intricate scheme involving slavery, changed identities, and fur trappers emerges, and it becomes imperative that Ruso find Branan before it’s too late.
]]> Thu, 27 Nov 2014 04:13:19 +0200 Terra Incognita: A Novel of the Roman Empire https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/410027-terra_incognita_a_novel_of_the_roman_empire.html https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/410027-terra_incognita_a_novel_of_the_roman_empire.html Terra Incognita: A Novel of the Roman Empire
aka Ruso and the Demented Doctor]]> Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:55:59 +0200 Medicus mi-1 https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/196533-medicus_mi-1.html https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/196533-medicus_mi-1.html Medicus mi-1
]]> Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:58:54 +0200 Ruso and the Root of All Evils https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/426463-ruso_and_the_root_of_all_evils.html https://religion.library.land/ruth-downie/426463-ruso_and_the_root_of_all_evils.html Ruso and the Root of All Evils
At long last, Gaius Petreius Ruso and his companion, Tilla, are headed home—to Gaul. Having received a note consisting only of the words “COME HO ME!” Ruso has (reluctantly, of course) pulled up stakes and brought T illa to meet his family. But the reception there is not what Ruso has hoped for: no one will admit to sending for him, and his brother Lucius is hoping he’ll leave. With Tilla getting icy greetings from his relatives, Lucius’s brother-inlaw mysteriously drowned at sea, and the whole Ruso family teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, it’s hard to imagine an unhappier reunion. That is, until Severus, the family’s chief creditor, winds up dead, and the real trouble begins… Engrossing, intricate, and—as always—wonderfully comic, Ruth Downie’s latest is a brilliant new installment in this irresistible series. This is everything we’ve come to expect from our charming, luckless hero.]]> Wed, 27 Nov 2013 04:13:17 +0200