{"product_id":"plague-land-oswald-de-lacy-book-1-1444785788","title":"Plague Land: Oswald de Lacy Book 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1444785788\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e S.D. Sykes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlague Land is set in the fourteenth century, and portrays a society trying to deal with the traumatic effects of the apocalypse of the Black Death - though it is murder, not plague, which is terrorising the Kent village of Somershill  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOswald 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe finds the years of pestilence and neglect have changed the old place dramatically, not to mention the attitude of the surviving peasants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore he can do anything, Oswald is confronted by the shocking death of a young woman, Alison Starvecrow. The ambitious village priest claims that Alison was killed by a band of demonic dog-headed men. Oswald is certain this is nonsense, but proving it - by finding the real murderer - is quite a different matter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery step he takes seems to lead Oswald deeper into a dark maze of political intrigue, family secrets and violent strife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd then the body of another girl is found.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSD Sykes brilliantly evokes the landscape and people of medieval Kent in this thrillingly suspenseful debut.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52192901726496,"sku":"NEW1444785788","price":20.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/810D7za53tL.jpg?v=1786879492","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/plague-land-oswald-de-lacy-book-1-1444785788","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}