Sepulchre
Kate Mosse
Price: £7.99
On Sale: 1 May 2008
About the Book
A gripping tale of mystery and adventure from the No.1 bestselling author of LABYRINTH 1891. Seventeen-year-old Leonie Vernier and her brother abandon Paris for the sanctuary of their aunt's isolated country house near Carcassonne, the Domaine de la Cade. But Leonie 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 to research a biography. But Meredith is also seeking the key to her own complex legacy and becomes immersed in the story of a tragic love, a missing girl, a unique deck of tarot cards and the strange events of one cataclysmic night a century ago...
Author
Kate Mosse is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer, the author of eight novels and short story collections, including the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy, The Burning Chambers Series and number one bestselling Gothic fiction The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermistā€™s Daughter. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and published in more than forty countries. The Founder Director of the Womenā€™s Prize for Fiction, she is the Founder of the global Woman In History campaign.
Reviews
Sepulchre is compulsive, fantastic, historical yarn. Mosse's skills lie in the presice nature of her storytelling'
OBSERVER
Mosse's gift 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
THE INDEPENDENT
Ghosts, duels, ill-fated love and conspiracy... addictively readable
DAILY MAIL
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
[Mosse is] a powerful storyteller with an abundant imagination.
DAILY TELEGRAPH
Sepulchre is compulsive, fantastic, historical yarn. Mosse's skills lie in the presice nature of her storytelling'
OBSERVER
Mosse's gift 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
THE INDEPENDENT
Ghosts, duels, ill-fated love and conspiracy... addictively readable
DAILY MAIL
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
[Mosse is] a powerful storyteller with an abundant imagination.
DAILY TELEGRAPH
Product Details
ISBN: 9780752893440
Published: 1 May 2008
784 Pages