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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Watch out for Citadel, the latest in the Languedoc series, published on 25 Oct 2012.

The Languedoc series.

1. Labyrinth

2. Sepulchre

3. Citadel

Comparison: Dan Brown, Diana Gabaldon.

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Synopsis

1891. Seventeen-year-old Léonie Vernier and her brother abandon Paris for the sanctuary of their aunt's isolated country house near Carcassonne, the Domaine de la Cade. But in the nearby woods, Léonie stumbles across a ruined sepulchre - and a timeless mystery whose traces are written in blood.

2007. Meredith Martin arrives at the Domaine de la Cade as part of her research for a biography she's writing. But Meredith is also seeking the key to her own complex legacy and soon becomes immersed in the story of a tragic love, a missing girl, a unique deck of tarot cards, an unquiet soul and the strange events of one cataclysmic night more than a century ago...

Reviews

'The Labyrinth author is back with another brilliantly absorbing story ... Richly evocative and full of compelling twists and turns.' RED

'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

'Sepulchre is a compulsive, fantastical, historical yarn. Mosse's skill lies in the precise nature of her storytelling.' THE OBSERVER

About the Author

Kate Mosse was our Guest Editor in November 2012 - click here - to see the books that inspired her writing.   Kate Mosse is the author of the number one bestsellers, Labyrinth, Sepulchre and The Winter Ghosts. Her other writing includes two non-fiction books, two further novels and a play. The multi-million selling international number one bestseller, Labyrinth, has been translated into thirty-five languages and published in forty countries. It won ‘Richard & Judy’s Best Read’ at the 2006 British Book Awards and was chosen as one of Waterstone’s Top 100 novels of the past twenty-five years. The co-founder and honorary director of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, Kate was awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Chichester in 2006. Kate lives with her family in West Sussex and Carcassonne.   Author photo © Roderick Field More books by this author Author 'Like for Like' recommendation