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The Bone Fire

Oswald de Lacy, Book 4

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The Bone Fire

By: S D Sykes
Narrated by: Ewan Goddard
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The brand-new Oswald de Lacy medieval thriller, for fans of C. J. Sansom, Minette Walters and S. J. Parris.

1361. Plague has returned to England - 13 years after the devastation of the Black Death. As destruction advances towards his estate in Kent, Oswald de Lacy leads his family to the safety of a remote castle in the marshes - where his friend Godfrey is preparing a fortress to survive the coming disaster.

The rules are clear: once the de Lacys and other guests are inside the castle the portcullis will be lowered and no-one permitted to enter or leave until the Pestilence has passed.

And then a murderer strikes.

Oswald is confronted with a stark choice - leave and face the ravages of the plague or stay and place his family at the mercy of a brutal killer. With word of his skills as an investigator preceding him, it falls to Oswald to unmask the murderer in their midst. Host, guest or servant - everyone is a suspect in this poisoned refuge of secrets, deceit and malice.

Suspenseful, evocative, compelling, The Bone Fire is a superb historical crime novel from the author of City of Masks.

©2019 Portica Associates Ltd (P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Historical Thriller & Suspense Crime Fiction Middle Ages Mystery Exciting Murder

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Critic reviews

An intriguing and vivid addition to an increasingly interesting series, and a fascinating glimpse of an almost forgotten period of history. (Andrew Taylor)
Living legends Andrew Taylor and Susanna Gregory; bestselling phenomena SJ Parris and CJ Sansom... a league of extraordinary resurrectionists. If you love their books, I invite you to visit fourteenth-century England, with SD Sykes ... Savour the company of young Oswald de Lacy, among the most appealing historical sleuths currently on the hunt. (A.J. Finn)
Chilling and evocative. This book will have you gripped from the first page to the last (Tracy Borman)
If you love C.J. Sansom, you have to read S.D. Sykes. Her Oswald de Lacy series just gets better and better. The Bone Fire is a wonderfully claustrophobic and compelling mystery, filled with clever twists, fascinating characters and flashes of Sykes's sly wit. Utterly immersive, utterly gripping historical crime at its very, very best. (Antonia Hodgson)
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I had become slightly impatient with Oswald de Lacy by the end of City of Masks but in this story he has finally become more confident. An entertaining listen.

Best in the series.

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