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Ruso is a Roman doctor stationed in Britania during time of Hadran/Trajan. Right away he is confronted with a dead prostitute and then a slave girl with a broken arm.  He saves the slave girl's arm and is bothered that no one will do anything about the murdered girl.  Ruso has, back in Rome, a divorced wife.  He has family debts--his father died leaving them for him and his brother.

It's supposed to be historical fiction, and I guess it is, but it's more a murder mystery set in historical times.  Ruso seems almost completely modern.  Nevertheless, fun so far.

(The slave girl is now his slave girl.  He talks repeatedly about how he wants to get rid of her, so no doubt she will be with him the entire novel (:.

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