Download Plague Land AudioBook Free
In this particular chilling historical enigma, young girls go absent from a middle ages English town, and Lord Oswald de Lacy must find the killer before tragedy hits again. Oswald de Lacy was never meant to be the lord of Somershill Manor. Dispatched to a monastery at age seven, sent back at 17 when his father and two more aged brothers were wiped out by the plague, Oswald has no experience of running an real estate. He finds many years of pestilence and neglect have evolved the old place greatly, not forgetting the frame of mind of the making it through peasants. Yet some things never change. Oswald's mother remains the powerful matriarch of the family, and his sister, Clemence, simmers in the background, dangerous and unmarried. Before he is able to do anything, Oswald is confronted by the shocking fatality of a girl, Alison Starvecrow. The ambitious town priest claims that Alison was wiped out by a group of demonic, dog-headed men. Oswald is for certain this is nonsense, but showing it--by finding the real murderer--is quite a different matter. Every step he calls for seems to lead Oswald deeper into a dark maze of politics intrigue, family secrets, and violent strife. And then the body of another female is found. Sarah Sykes brilliantly evokes the landscape and folks of middle ages Kent in this thrillingly suspenseful debut.
