Kate Mosse

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?

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...

1942. Occupied France. A time of courage, betrayal, loyalty - and love.An epic wartime novel from the No.1 bestselling author of LABYRINTH and THE MISTLETOE BRIDE.1942, Nazi-occupied France. Sandrine, a spirited and courageous nineteen-year-old, finds herself drawn into a Resistance group in Carcassonne - codenamed ''Citadel'' - made up of ordinary women who are prepared to risk everything for what is right.And when she meets Raoul, they discover a shared passion for the cause, for their homeland, and for each other.But in a world where the enemy now lies in every shadow - where neighbour informs on neighbour; where friends disappear without warning and often without trace - love can demand the highest price of all...

World War I robbed England and France of an entire generation of friends, lovers and futures. In Freddie Watson's case, the battlefields took his beloved brother and, at times, his peace of mind. In the winter of 1928, still seeking some kind of resolution, Freddie is travelling through the beautiful but forbidding French Pyrenees. During a snowstorm, his car spins off the mountain road. Freezing and dazed, he stumbles through the woods, emerging in a tiny village, where he finds an inn to wait out the blizzard. There he meets Fabrissa, a lovely young woman also mourning a lost generation. Over the course of one night, Fabrissa and Freddie share their stories. By the time dawn breaks, Freddie will have unearthed a tragic mystery that goes back through the centuries, and discovered his own role in the life of this old remote town.

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.

The Great War took much more than lives. It robbed a generation of friends, lovers and futures. In Freddie Watson''s case, it took his beloved brother and, at times, his peace of mind. Unable to cope with his grief, Freddie has spent much of the time since in a sanatorium.In the winter of 1928, still seeking resolution, Freddie is travelling through the French Pyrenees - another region that has seen too much bloodshed over the years. During a snowstorm, his car spins off the mountain road. Shaken, he stumbles into the woods, emerging by a tiny village. There he meets Fabrissa, a beautiful local woman, also mourning a lost generation. Over the course of one night, Fabrissa and Freddie share their stories of remembrance and loss. By the time dawn breaks, he will have stumbled across a tragic mystery that goes back through the centuries.By turns thrilling, poignant and haunting, this is a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage.

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 ...

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

From the author of the New York Times-bestselling novel Labyrinth comes another haunting tale of double crosses, murder, and the occult set in both nineteenth- and twenty-first-century France.

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.

Kate MosseDie achte KarteRomanAls die junge Meredith auf der Suche nach ihren Wurzeln durch Paris streift, stot sie auf ein seltenes und unvollstandiges Set Tarotkarten aus vergangener Zeit. Die geheimnisvollen Abbildungen schlagen sie sofort in ihren Bann, denn eine Figur tragt unverkennbar Merediths Gesichtszuge. Was die junge Frau nicht wei: Die Karten erzahlen von einem schrecklichen Ungluck in ihrer Familie und es scheint, als habe sie die alten Geister wieder geweckt ...

En contraposición al tumultuoso telón de fondo que es el sur de Francia, Sepulcro es la nueva y sensacional novela de obsesión y venganza escrita por la autora del best seller Laberinto. Octubre de 1891: Leonie Vernier, que tiene dieciseiete años, y su hermano Anatole abandonan las callles parisinas alumbradas por lamparas de gas para trasladarse al santuario del Domaine de la Cade, algunas millas al sur de la ciudad medieval de Carcasona. Pero, en los bosques que rodean a la incomunicada casa solariega, Leonie se tropieza con las ruinas de un sepulcro visigodo, y tambien con un misterio eterno cuyas pistas estan marcadas con sangre. Una vez que Leonie empieza a levantar las capas del pasado, descubre la existencia de unas cartas del Tarot de las que se rumorea que tienen poderes sobre la vida y la muerte. Octubre de 2007: Investigando la biografia del compositor Claude Debussy en la aparente tranquilidad de las laderas de los Pirineos, Meredith Martin tambien esta buscando la clave para resolver su propio y complejo legado. Armada con una inolvidable pieza para piano y una fotografia color sepia, pronto se vera inmersa en la historia de un tragico amor, una chica desaparecida, un alma intranquila y los extraños eventos de una noche cataclismica de hace mas de un siglo. Incluye una baraja de Tarot exclusiva.