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Ruth is the author of five mysteries* featuring Roman Army medic Gaius Petreius Ruso. The fifth, SEMPER FIDELIS, is now available in the USA and Canada, and will be published soon in the UK. She lives in Devon, England, and is married with two grown-up sons. A combination of nosiness and a childish fascination with mud means she is never happier than when wielding an archaeological trowel.

She is sometimes called R.S. Downie, but she isn't the person with the same name who writes medical textbooks, and recommends that readers should never, ever take health advice from a two thousand year old man who prescribes mouse droppings.

*The first four books all have two titles. Ruth is still wondering how this ever seemed like a good idea. Since sh...more


This weekend I’ll be talking to Caroline Davis, author of CONVOY, a new collection of poems telling the stories of the men who fought to get supplies through to Malta during the Second World War, and of their families back home.


With luck we’ll have a couple of the poems right here on the blog.



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Average rating: 3.77 · 4,950 ratings · 890 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors
Medicus (Gaius Petreius Rus...
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 2,452 ratings — published 2006 — 22 editions
Terra Incognita (Gaius Petr...
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 1,028 ratings — published 2008 — 14 editions
Persona Non Grata (Gaius Pe...
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 756 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions
Caveat Emptor (Gaius Petrei...
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 541 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions
Semper Fidelis (Gaius Petre...
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions
Caveat Emptor, A Novel of t...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Medicus Terra Incognita Persona Non Grata Caveat Emptor Semper Fidelis
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Ruth Downie wrote a new blog post: Coming soon… CONVOY
This weekend I’ll be talking to Caroline Davis, author of CONVOY, a new collection of poems telling the stories of the men who fought to get suppli... read more »
Ruth Downie made a comment on Radio Silence:
"Thanks Caroline! The book's now gone to the editor so I'm catching up with all the other things that got ignored during the obsessive text-tweaking. "
Ruth Downie made a comment on Publication Day!:
"Thank you Kent! "
"Definitely worth a trip! Especially if you can get plenty of time to wander around. "
Ruth Downie added:
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
Hallucinations
by Oliver Sacks (Goodreads Author)
read in January, 2013
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Saturnalia, Books 1-2 by Macrobius
Saturnalia, Books 1-2
by Macrobius
read in January, 2013
Ruth Downie rated a book 5 of 5 stars
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
The Crimson Petal and the White
by Michel Faber
read in November, 2012
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Silent Voices by Ann Cleeves
Silent Voices
by Ann Cleeves (Goodreads Author)
read in October, 2012
Ruth Downie said "yes" to attending the event: Historical Fantasy eBook Giveaway
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date: June 10, 2012 01:37PM
location: The United Kingdom
description: Until noon on Friday the 15th of June, I am giving away eBook copies of my epic historical fantasy novel INTERREGNUM. Visit http://www.sjaturney.co.uk for download links in both .mobi format for Kindle and .epub for other readers and for all other info on the book and its sequels. Get it for free this week only. And do feel free to extend the invitation to as many as you like.

*UPDATE: to download for kindle, right click and save as, then email to your kindle*

Ruth said: Thank you kindly, sir!
More of Ruth's books…
“One of the many difficult things about women was that they tended to pick the most unsuitable times to tell you something they considered to be important, and then became irrationally upset when you failed to remember it.”
Ruth Downie, Terra Incognita

“Back from where? you're not going out again and leaving me here are you?? Holy Hercules I sound like somebody's wife”
Ruth Downie, Terra Incognita

“I seem to remember sitting on a golden bench, and she started chattering about the sunset, or something. She seemed quite happy so I let her get on with it. Then she got hold of my hand and asked me what I was thinking about. So I said, "The treatment of anal fistulae".”
Ruth Downie, Terra Incognita

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