Sepulchre

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Set against the tumultuous backdrop of southern France, Sepulchre is the stunning new novel of obsession and revenge from a ¦the number one bestselling author of Labyrinth.
OctoBER 1891: Seventeen-year-old Leonie Vernier and her ^ brother Anatole abandon the gas-lit streets of Paris for the '
sanctuary of the Domaine de la Cade, some miles south of the • -^Jfg i city of Carcassonne. But, in the woods that surround the isolated house, Leonie stumbles across a ruined Visigoth sepulchre - and a mystery whose Jf traces are written in blood. As she peels back the layers of the past, she uncovers the existence of a unique deck of tarot cards that are rumoured to hold the power of life and death.
October 2007: Researching a biography of the composer Claude Debussy in the apparent tranquillity of the Pyrenean foothills, Meredith Martin also seeks the key to her own complex legacy. Armed with a haunting piece of : piano music and a sepia photograph, she soon becomes immersed in the • ;... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Set against the tumultuous backdrop of southern France, Sepulchre is the stunning new novel of obsession and revenge from a ¦the number one bestselling author of Labyrinth.
OctoBER 1891: Seventeen-year-old Leonie Vernier and her ^ brother Anatole abandon the gas-lit streets of Paris for the '
sanctuary of the Domaine de la Cade, some miles south of the • -^Jfg i city of Carcassonne. But, in the woods that surround the isolated house, Leonie stumbles across a ruined Visigoth sepulchre - and a mystery whose Jf traces are written in blood. As she peels back the layers of the past, she uncovers the existence of a unique deck of tarot cards that are rumoured to hold the power of life and death.
October 2007: Researching a biography of the composer Claude Debussy in the apparent tranquillity of the Pyrenean foothills, Meredith Martin also seeks the key to her own complex legacy. Armed with a haunting piece of : piano music and a sepia photograph, she soon becomes immersed in the • ; story of a tragic love, a missing girl, an unquiet soul, and the strange events . of one cataclysmic night more than a century ago.
As the Feast of All Saints approaches - when the veil between life
and death is at its thinnest - Meredith is drawn inexorably

to a secluded forest glade where the secrets of the past are far from buried

Kate Mosse is the author of five previous books, including the * > international bestseller, Labyrinth. Translated into 35 languages and publish eti' in 40 countries, it also won the 2006 Richard & Judy Best Read award and was chosen as one of Waterstone's Top 100 novels of the past'25 years! The Co-Founder & Honorary Director of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, Kate lives with her family in West Sussex and Carcassonne. Vissza