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Tabula Rasa

Roman Empire Series, Book 6

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Tabula Rasa

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.

©2014 Ruth Downie (P)2014 Tantor Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Mystery Fiction

Critic Reviews

"Like the other titles in the series, Downie's latest mixes an engaging story line, provocative characters, and a satisfying evocation of time and place." ( Library Journal)
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If you've come across this series and haven't already started with Medicus (book 1), I implore you to do so. It's clever, different and entertaining.

Clever humour

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Just re- listened and I think I enjoyed it a bit more than the first time. So I gave it another star.
Still love the reading but the characters are beginning to look stupid. They repeat the same mistakes in every book.
I hope the next one deserves a whole book and not a short story told ten different ways.

Thin story line -told and retold

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