June 2015 Debut of the Month.
The fourteenth century is widely believed to be a terrible time in which to live. Here, in 1350, the Black Death has left half the population dead, the fields empty and a novice monk in charge of a lord’s holding. A great time to set a murder mystery. Superstition is rife; the devil’s hand appears in everything. It is far easier to blame him for atrocities than seek a human culprit. This has an easy style which is a pleasure to read but the shadow of the plague hangs over everything, making all feel dark and sinister. I enjoyed it and I believe we can expect more. ~ Sarah Broadhurst
Oswald de Lacy was never meant to be the Lord of Somerhill Manor. Despatched to a monastery at the age of seven, sent back at seventeen when his father and two older brothers are killed by thePlague, Oswald has no experience of running an estate. He finds the years of pestilence and neglect have changed the old place dramatically, not to mention the attitude of the surviving peasants.
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Oswald de Lacy was never meant to be the Lord of Somerhill Manor. Despatched to a monastery at the age of seven, sent back at seventeen when his father and two older brothers are killed by thePlague, Oswald has no experience of running an estate.
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Hardback, Paperback. £9.89, down from the £10.99 cover price. In Stock.
Plague Land was written by S. D. Sykes and published by Hodder Paperback an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Plague Land has 336 pages
Yes it is part of The Oswald De Lacy Medieval Murders series
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. In Stock.
