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"Oswald de Lacy was never meant to be the Lord of Somerhill Manor. Dispatched to a monastery at the age of seven, sent back at seventeen when his father and two older brothers are killed by the plague, 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. 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 can do anything, Oswald is…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2015Pegasus Crime · 336 pages · 9781605989808
- Other · English · 2015Pegasus Books · 336 pages · 9781605987385
- Other · English · 2014Hodder & Stoughton · 336 pages · 9781444785777
MurderInvestigationFeudalismPlagueHistoryFictionFiction, mystery & detective, historicalEngland, fiction






