S.D. Sykes


Books by S.D. Sykes

The Good Death

The story of how novice monk Oswald de Lacy became lord of Somershill.

Reviewed on 19 February 2022 by John Cleal

City of Masks

Oswald de Lacy, Lord Somershill, is in Venice on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. On a night of carnival, he finds a dead man and is plunged into the secrets and intrigues of the City on the Sea.

Reviewed on 28 October 2017 by John Cleal

The Butcher Bird

Monastery-raised Oswald de Lacy must grow up fast as lord of Somershill Manor. When two newborn babies are found impaled on thorn bushes, a strange story of a giant killer bird threatens chaos.

Reviewed on 11 June 2016 by John Cleal

Plague Land

Monastery-raised teenager Oswald de Lacy, lord of the manor after the plague deaths of his father and brothers, must battle greed and superstition to solve the brutal murder of a young girl.

Reviewed on 13 December 2014 by John Cleal