Kate Mosse

Bringing sixteenth-century Languedoc vividly to life, Kate Mosse's The Burning Chambers is a gripping story of love and betrayal, mysteries and secrets; of war and adventure, conspiracies and divided loyalties . . . Carcassonne 1562: Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father's bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE. But before Minou can decipher the mysterious message, a chance encounter with a young Huguenot convert, Piet Reydon, changes her destiny forever. For Piet has a dangerous mission of his own, and he will need Minou's help if he is to get out of La Cite alive. Toulouse: As the religious divide deepens in the Midi, and old friends become enemies, Minou and Piet both find themselves trapped in Toulouse, facing new dangers as sectarian tensions ignite across the city, the battle-lines are drawn in blood and the conspiracy darkens further. Meanwhile, as a long-hidden document threatens to resurface, the mistress of Puivert is obsessed with uncovering its secret and strengthening her power...

Junio de 1572: durante diez violentos años, las guerras de religión han asolado Francia. Países vecinos se han convertido en enemigos acérrimos y se han perdido innumerables vidas. Ahora, el matrimonio real entre Margarita de Valois y Enrique de Navarra espera cerrar el largo capitulo de los conflictos religiosos entre catolicos y hugonotes, y su union puede lograr la cohesion social y religiosa del pais. Una boda real en Paris puede significar la paz para el pueblo. O la guerra para el mundo. Una apasionante historia ambientada en las guerras de religion delsiglo XVI.

Descubre a Kate Mosse, la reina de la novela histórica.Más de 8.000.000 de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo.Carcasona, s. XVI. La primera llama ha prendido, adéntrate en el fuego...Carcasona, tierra de cataros, 1562. La joven catolica Minou Joubert recibe una carta anonima sellada con el emblema de una poderosa saga, solo cinco palabras:ELLA SABE QUE ESTAS VIVA.Antes de que Minou pueda descifrar el misterioso mensaje, el destino le pondra delante al joven converso Piet Reydon, que cambiara su destino para siempre. Piet tiene una peligrosa mision, y la necesita para salir vivo de La Cite.Y mientras, la fractura entre religiones se hace cada dia mas profunda, las lineas de batalla se tiñen de sangre y las conspiraciones estan a la orden del dia. La misteriosa señora del Castillo de Puivert, espera el momento perfecto para atacar...

Separadas por ocho siglos, dos mujeres guardan el Santo Grial...En las montañas de Carcasona, la tierra de los cátaros, un secreto ha permanecido oculto desde el siglo XIII. En plena cruzada contra los cataros, la joven Alas ha sido designada para proteger un antiguo libro que contiene los secretos del Santo Grial. Ochocientos años despues, la arqueologa Alice Tanner trabaja en una excavacion en el sur de Francia y descubre una cueva que ha ocultado oscuros misterios durante todos estos siglos. ¿Que pasara si todo sale a la luz?

La novela que cambiará tu destino. Lo dicen las cartas. En Rennes-les-Bains, un conocido pueblecito del sur de Francia, las leyendas sobre seres extraños corren de boca en boca. Pero ¿hablamos sólo de rumores populares? Algo maligno se ha despertado... las notas de una pieza de Debussy salen de un antiguo sepulcro y los fantasmas del pasado bailan a su ritmo. Todo comienza con una tirada de cartas del Tarot, que marcara los destinos de Leonie y Meredith, dos mujeres que conviven en dos siglos diferentes... Dos destinos que son uno, lo dicen las cartas. Musica, amores desafortunados, asesinatos, persecuciones, esoterismo y autores malditos tejen los entresijos de esta fascinante novela, en la que dentro de su sepulcro encontraremos las respuestas que sus protagonistas persiguen, y que marcaran los caminos que han de seguir sus vidas.

Sussex, 1912.In a churchyard, villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will die in the coming year are thought to walk. Here, where the estuary leads out to the sea, superstitions still hold sway.Standing alone is the taxidermist''s daughter. At twenty-two, Constantia Gifford lives with her father in a decaying house: it contains all that is left of Gifford''s once world-famous museum of taxidermy. The stuffed birds that used to grace every parlour are out of fashion, leaving Gifford a disgraced and bitter man. The string of events that led to the museum''s closure are never spoken of and an accident has robbed Connie of any memory of those days.The bell begins to toll and all eyes are fixed on the church. No one sees the gloved hands holding a garotte. As the last notes fade into the dark, a woman lies dead.While the village braces itself against rising waters and the highest tide of the season, Connie struggles to discover who is responsible - and why the incident is causing memories to surface from her own vanished years. Does she know the figure she sees watching from the marshes? Who is the mysterious caller that leaves a note without being seen? And what is the secret that lies at the heart of Blackthorn House, hidden among the bell jars of her father''s workshop?The Taxidermist''s Daughter is the stunning new novel from the multi-million copy bestselling author, Kate Mosse.

The clock strikes twelve. Beneath the wind and the remorseless tolling of the bell, no one can hear the scream ...1912. A Sussex churchyard. Villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will not survive the coming year are thought to walk. And in the shadows, a woman lies dead. As the flood waters rise, Connie Gifford is marooned in a decaying house with her increasingly tormented father. He drinks to escape the past, but an accident has robbed her of her most significant childhood memories. Until the disturbance at the church awakens fragments of those vanished years ...

A wonderfully atmospheric collection of short stories, rooted deep in the landscape and inspired by traditional folk tales and country legends from England and France.

Nur acht Motive, darunter die Liebenden, die Kraft, der Teufel - und die Gerechtigkeit. Als die junge Meredith auf der Suche nach den Wurzeln ihrer Herkunft durch Paris streift, stot sie auf ein seltenes und unvollstandiges Set Tarotkarten aus vergangener Zeit. Und eine der Karten tragt unverkennbar ihre eigenen Zuge Die verbluffende Ahnlichkeit verwirrt Meredith vollig. Zufall, schlielich kann der Zeichner sie nicht gekannt haben. Aber ist es auch Zufall, dass die Karten sie ebenso in den Suden Frankreichs fuhren wie die wenigen Familienerbstucke, die sie besitzt? Liegt etwa eine Botschaft in der Karte der Gerechtigkeit? Das zumindest glaubt Meredith, als sie feststellt, dass es eine Verbindung gibt zwischen dem Tarotset und dem, was sie uber ihre Familie herausfindet. Immer wieder taucht dabei der Name einer jungen Frau auf: Leonie Vernier. Sie entpuppt sich als die Zeichnerin der Karten. In ihren Bildern erzahlt sie die Geschichte ihres Bruders Anatole und seiner groen Liebe. Eine Liebe, die ein anderer unbedingt zerstoren will: Victor Constant. Und Leonie selbst ist es, die ihm, geblendet von seinem Charme, den Weg weist zu den Liebenden. Ihre Karten kennen die Wahrheit - und hundert Jahre spater droht sich die Vergangenheit zu wiederholen.

October 1891: A young girl, Leonie 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.

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 in the nearby woods, 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 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...

The world is stacked against women like me. But things are different now.1912. In an isolated house on the Sussex salt marshes, Connie Gifford lives with her father. Robbed of her childhood memories by a mysterious accident, she is haunted by fitful glimpses of her past whilst her father has become a broken man, taking refuge in the bottle, since the closure of his once-legendary Museum of Avian Taxidermy.A strange woman has been seen in the graveyard and a few miles away, two patients have, inexplicably, disappeared from the local asylum. As a major storm hits the coastline, old wounds are about to be opened as one woman, intent on revenge, attempts to liberate another from the horrifying crimes of the past.The Taxidermists Daughter is a thrilling Gothic story of violence, retribution and justice, adapted for the stage by Kate Mosse from her own internationally best-selling novel, and first performed at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2022, directed by Roisin McBrinn.A superb, atmospheric thriller, its Gothic overtones commanding attentionDaily Mail on Kate Mosses novel