Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature sponsored by Breaking the Spine. It is a great way to share upcoming releases.
I am waiting on Tabula Rasa: A Crime Novel of the Roman Empire (Gaius Petreius Ruso #6) by Ruth Downie. I love both Ruso and Tilla and have been waiting for the next book for over a year. I still have to wait a little longer as the book will not be released until August.
From Goodreads:
"The
medicus Ruso and his wife Tilla are back in the borderlands of Britannia, this
time helping to tend the builders of Hadrian's 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.
Then
Ruso's recently arrived clerk, Candidus, goes missing. A native boy thinks he
sees a body being hidden inside the wall's half-finished stonework, and a
worrying rumor begins to spread. When the soldiers ransack the nearby farms
looking for Candidus, Tilla's tentative friendship with a local family turns to
anger and disappointment. It's clear that the sacred rites to bless her
marriage to Ruso will have to wait. Tensions only increase when Branan, the
family's youngest son, also vanishes. He was last seen in the company of a lone
and unidentified soldier who claimed he was taking the boy to see Tilla.
As Ruso and Tilla try to solve the
mystery of the two disappearances - while at the same time struggling to keep
the peace between the Britons and the Romans - an intricate scheme involving
slavery, changed identities, and fur trappers emerges, and it becomes
imperative that Ruso find Branan before it's too late.(less)"
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