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As absorbing and fascinating as Mosse’s first novel Labyrinth, Sepulchre is rich in history, mystery, revenge and obsession. Again this is a time split novel following the story of two women separated by over a century but linked by a mysterious discovery. A really great read, thoroughly engrossing.
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Synopsis
Sepulchre by Kate Mosse
October 1891: A young girl, Léonie Vernier, and her brother, Anatole, are invited to leave the gas-lit streets of Paris and travel south to a mysterious country house - La Domaine de la Cade - near Carcassonne. There, in the ancient, dark woods, Leonie comes across a ruined sepulchre and is drawn into a century's old mystery of murder, ghosts and a strange set of tarot cards that seem to hold enormous power over life and death.
October 2007: Meredith Martin decides to take a break from her research trip in Paris - where she is studying Claude Debussy - and head down south to a beautiful hotel in the woods. She becomes fascinated by the history of the place and particularly by the tragic events of one Halloween night more than a century before that shocked the small community. Thus her fate becomes entwined with that of Leonie. But it is only when she too stumbles over a secluded glade in the forest that she realises that the secrets it contains are far from dead and buried…
A haunting mystery of revenge and obsession, set against the rich backdrop of southern France, SEPULCHRE is the stunning new novel from the bestselling author of LABYRINTH.
Reviews
'The Labyrinth author is back with another brilliantly absorbing story ... Richly evocative and full of compelling twists and turns.'
RED
'The latest from the the author of best-selling Labyrinth, this adventure will keep you engrossed.'
EVE
'Mosse's gifts for historical fiction are considerable ... Mosse does what good popular historical novelists do best - make the past enticingly otherworldly, while also claiming it as our own.'
Emma Hagestadt INDEPENDENT
'Gripping'
HEAT
'ghosts, duels, murders, ill-fated love and conspiracy...addictively readable'
Eithne Farry DAILY MAIL
'undeniably gripping'
THELONDONPAPER
'Try this if you enjoyed The Da Vinci Code but fancy something a bit more meaty.'
NEWS OF THE WORLD
'Better than Labyrinth!'
SIMON MAYO BOOK CLUB ON RADIO 5 LIVE
'A sure, deft momentum...the secrets begin to slip out thick and fast'
DAILY EXPRESS
'The best of the Brits...a ghoul thriller...Where Mosse really wins is in the writing department. She's the real role model there.'
THE MIRROR
'Sepulchre is a compulsive, fantastical, historical yarn. Mosse's skill lies in the precise nature of her storytelling.'
THE OBSERVER
'[Mosse is] a powerful storyteller with an abundant imagination'. -- Artemis Cooper DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Her narrative lyricism, beautifully drawn female characters and deft journey from the past to the present day, are also a cut above.'
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
'no doubt many readers are eagerly awaiting the the pleasures of her next novel.'
THE GUARDIAN
'an enjoyable romp'
MAIL ON SUNDAY
'sexy, modern adventure.'
SAGA
About the Author
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Kate Mosse is the author of two previous novels and two non-fiction books. She presented BBC 4's flagship Readers and Writers Roadshow and is a guest presenter of Radio 4's Saturday Review. The co-founder and Honorary Director of the Orange Prize for Fiction, Kate is also a trustee of Arts & Business, Arts & Kids and the Arts Council of England. In 2000, she was named European Woman of Achievement for her contribution to the arts. She lives with her family in West Sussex and Carcassonne.
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