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    Tabula Rasa: A Crime Novel of the Roman Empire
    Tabula Rasa: A Crime Novel of the Roman Empire
    Tabula Rasa: A Crime Novel of the Roman Empire
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    Tabula Rasa: A Crime Novel of the Roman Empire

    Written by Ruth Downie

    Narrated by Simon Vance

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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.

    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 soldiers ransack the nearby farms looking for Candidus, Tilla's tentative friendship with a local family turns to anger and disappointment. Tensions only increase when Branan, the family's youngest son, also vanishes.

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateAug 5, 2014
    ISBN9781494572785
    Author

    Ruth Downie

    Ruth Downie is the author of the New York Times bestselling Medicus, Terra Incognita, Persona Non Grata, and Caveat Emptor. She is married with two sons and lives in Devon, England.

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      I enjoyed this novel more than the last one. I loved Verana the maid. A lot of recurring characters in this one which I liked.

      For some reason, the narrator gave Albanus a slightly German accent in this audiobook which he didn’t have in the previous ones.