Tabula Rasa: A Crime Novel of the Roman Empire (The Medicus Series, 6)

Tabula Rasa: A Crime Novel of the Roman Empire (The Medicus Series, 6) by Downie, Ruth. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781608197088.

The medicus Ruso and his wife, Tilla, are back in the borderlands of Britannia, where he is tending the builders of Hadrians 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. The tension grows when Rusos recently arrived clerk goes missing and things go from bad to worse when the young son of a local family also vanishes. While struggling to keep the peace between the Britons and the Romans, Ruso and Tilla uncover an intricate deception involving slavery and fur trappers, and it becomes imperative that they solve the mystery of the two disappearances before its too late.