Medicus
A Novel

This is a highly enjoyable book: fast moving, engaging, entertaining. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good historical mystery. What more can I say? I'm a reader, not a critic.

Medicus is what I call a 'popcorn' book: a book to pick up and settle in with for an evening's cozy reading. Entertainment value: 5 stars, but several months from now I'll have a hard time remembering much beyond the main characters: Gaius Petrius Ruso, a physician stationed in Brittania with the Ro......more

Reading Medicus I’m put in mind of Colin Cotterill's Siri Paiboun series. In both two men more devoted to their jobs than anything else find themselves reluctantly involved in murder investigations. In both we have a comedic more than tragic writing style that still manages to inject notes of seriou......more

Ruso is a divorced doctor in the Roman army, recently relocated to occupied Britain. He hates Britain, and misses Africa, his previous posting. He is committed to his job, which he conducts with compassion, dedication and skill; his compassion leads to his getting involved in solving the murders of......more

Five stars, five, and again five! Hurray for Medicus: it's the page-turner I've been looking for for a long time. I read it in an entire day because I couldn't put it down. Set in Roman Empire-era Brittania, this is the story of reluctant hero , Gaius Petrius Ruso, a doctor in the local army hospital......more