Terra incognita : a novel of the Roman Empire / Ruth Downie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Downie, Ruth, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Rome--History--Hadrian, 117-138--Fiction.

Rome.

Murder--Investigation--Fiction.

Murder.

Murder--Investigation.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Physical Description:

ix, 384 pages : map ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

In the spring of the year 118, Gaius Petreius Ruso has been stationed in the Roman-occupied province of Britannia for nearly a year. After his long and reluctant investigation of the murders of a handful of local prostitutes, Ruso needs to get away, volunteering for a posting with the army in Britannia's deepest recesses. These hinterlands are the homeland of Ruso's slave, Tilla, who has scores of her own to settle there. Her tribespeople are fomenting a rebellion against Roman control, and her former lover is implicated in the grisly murder of a soldier. Ruso is appalled to find that Tilla is still spending time with the prime suspect. Worse, he is honor-bound to try to prove the man innocent--and the army wrong--by finding another culprit.

ISBN:

9781596912328

1596912324

OCLC:

173240071

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