TY - BOOK AU - Ruth Downie TI - Caveat Emptor SN - 9781608197071 AV - PR6104.O94 U1 - 823.92 PB - Bloomsbury USA KW - Historical Fiction N2 - In her fourth novel, Ruth Downie brings to life the corruption and treachery of Roman-occupied Britain, as it closes in on her winsome leading man. Gaius Petreius Ruso and his new wife Tilla have moved to the town of Verulamium, where a tax man named Julius Asper has gone missing, along with a lot of money. As the investigation deepens, and despite our hero's best efforts to get himself fired, he and his bride find themselves trapped at the heart of an increasingly treacherous conspiracy involving theft, forgery, buried treasure, and the legacy of Boudica, the rebel queen ER -