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Medicus (also pub as Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls) is the Kindle US Daily Deal today, Sept 4. It's on sale for $1.99. It's the first in the rather good mystery series featuring Gaius Petreius Ruso, a Roman army doctor, and his companion in solving crimes, Tilla. The series is mostly set in Roman Britain. Keep in mind that I'm a big historical mystery fan, so I'm biased towards these sorts of mysteries...but I've quite liked this series so far.

The second book in the series, Terra Incognita (also pub as Ruso and the Demented Doctor) is also on sale, for $1.99, as part of the US "200 Kindle books for $1.99 Each" sale, which I think is a monthly sale good through Sept 30.

Medicus: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013TX7NY/

Spoiler:

Divorced and down on his luck, Gaius Petreius Ruso has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. In a moment of weakness, after a straight thirtysix-hour shift at the army hospital, he succumbs to compassion and rescues an injured slave girl, Tilla, from the hands of her abusive owner.
Now he has a new problem: a slave who won't talk and can't cook, and drags trouble in her wake. Before he knows it, Ruso is caught in the middle of an investigation into the deaths of prostitutes working out of the local bar. Now Ruso must summon all his forensic knowledge to find a killer who may be after him next.

With a gift for comic timing and historical detail, Ruth Downie has conjured an ancient world as raucous and real as our own.

Terra Incognita: http://www.amazon.com/Terra-Incognit...dp/B003Z6QLEA/

Spoiler:

It is spring in the year of 118, and Hadrian has been Emperor of Rome for less than a year. After getting involved with the murders of local prostitutes in the town of Deva, Doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso needs to get out of town, so has volunteered for a posting with the Army on the volatile border where the Roman-controlled half of Britannia meets the independent tribes of the North. Not only is he going to the hinterlands of the hinterlands, but it his slave Tilla's homeland and she has some scores to settle there. Soon they find that Tilla's tribespeople are being encouraged to rebel against Roman control by a mysterious leader known as the Stag Man, and her former lover is implicated in the grisly murder of a soldier. Ruso, unwillingly involved in the investigation of the murder, is appalled to find that Tilla is still spending time with the lover. Worse, he is honour bound to try to prove the man innocent - and the Army wrong - by finding another suspect. Soon both Ruso's and Tilla's lives are in jeopardy, as is the future of their burgeoning romantic relationship.