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by MAT COWARD
Idyllic crime scene: Bath is the setting of the thriller Memento Mori
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PIC CAP Idyllic crime scene: Bath is the setting of the thriller Memento Mori Pic: Diliff/Wikicommons
FAR from the first but, in my view, easily the best of the various detective series set during the Roman Empire reaches its eighth instalment with Memento Mori by Ruth Downie (CreateSpace).
Downie's investigators, as ever, are former army doctor Ruso and his native British wife Tilla, who loves her husband rather more than she does his strange, cold people with their rigid ideas and endless laws.
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