Persona Non Grata (Medicus Investigation, Book 3) by Ruth Downie

By Ruth Downie

The 3rd novel within the acclaimed Gaius Petreius Ruso sequence by way of the New York occasions bestselling Ruth Downie—this time set in historic Gaul.

Ruth Downie is released as R.S. Downie within the united kingdom, and this ebook is out there there below the identify Ruso and the foundation of All Evils.

At lengthy final, Gaius Petreius Ruso and his spouse, Tilla, are headed home—to Gaul. Having obtained a observe consisting merely of the phrases "COME HO ME!" Ruso has (reluctantly, in fact) pulled up stakes and taken T illa to fulfill his family.

But the reception there isn't what Ruso has was hoping for: nobody will admit to sending for him, and his brother Lucius is hoping he'll depart. With Tilla getting icy greetings from his kin, Lucius's brother-inlaw mysteriously drowned at sea, and the total Ruso relations teetering at the fringe of financial ruin, it's challenging to visualize an unhappier reunion. that's, till Severus, the family's leader creditor, lands up useless, and the genuine hassle begins…

Engrossing, tricky, and—as always—wonderfully comedian, Ruth Downie's most recent is an excellent new installment during this impossible to resist sequence. this is often every thing we've come to count on from our fascinating, luckless hero.

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C’mon,” I said, leading him into my office suite, otherwise known as my dining room. “Have a seat,” I said, gesturing to the dining table. Howard started for a chair, and I screeched in dismay. “Hey! ” I scooped my cat Prozac off the chair Howard was about to sit in and tossed her in the kitchen. She glared at me balefully, then got revenge by leaping on top of the dryer, onto a pile of freshly folded laundry. I turned to Howard and smiled my most encouraging smile. “So. ” He blinked, as if hearing this news for the first time.

Finally, I flipped to the news—just in time to see a skinny guy with a bobbing Adam’s apple being taken into police custody. Wait a minute. I knew that skinny guy. It was Howard Murdoch. I sat up straight in bed. What the heck was Howard doing in police custody? The TV reporter obligingly filled me in. My mild-mannered client, a guy so timid he was probably afraid of Count Chocula, was being arrested for the grisly murder of Westside aerobics instructor Stacy Lawrence. ” I sat across from Howard in the visitors’ room of the county jail, a stark, fluorescent-lit cavern that smelled like old oatmeal.

1622 Bentley. ” Five minutes later, I was on the freeway, heading over to Westwood. I wanted to talk to Stacy’s neighbor in Apartment Seven, the lady who’d heard Howard screaming. If she heard Howard, maybe she’d heard something else, something that would point me in the direction of the true killer. Wait a minute, you’re probably asking yourself. I’m a freelance writer, right? I. Warshawski? That’s just what I was asking myself that day as I headed over to Stacy’s place. What on earth did I think I was doing?

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