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?

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

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.

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...

Carcassonne 1942: Jeden Tag spürt die junge Sandrine die Einschränkungen durch den Krieg, doch ihre Lebensfreude lässt sie sich dadurch nicht nehmen. Selbst als sie überfallen wird, versteht sie die angstvolle Aufregung ihrer Freunde nicht: Bevor ihr Schlimmeres passieren kann, kommt ihr der junge Raoul zu Hilfe. Erst als Sandrine erfährt, dass die anderen längst im Widerstand kämpfen, auch ihre Schwester Marianne und ihr Retter Raoul, begreift Sandrine die Gefahr, in der sie schweben. Trotzdem schließt sie sich der Widerstands-Gruppe mit dem Namen Citadelle an. Die Aufträge der Gruppe werden allerdings immer gefährlicher, und bald weiß Sandrine nicht mehr, wem sie trauen kann. Nicht nur von den Besatzern geht Gefahr aus, zunehmend wird die Gruppe auch von Verrat aus den eigenen Reihen bedroht. Als der Krieg ­seinen schrecklichen Höhepunkt erreicht, zweifelt ­Sandrine selbst an Raoul - ihrem Lebensretter und der Liebe ihres Lebens.

The enthralling new Sunday Times bestselling gothic novel from the author of THE WINTER GHOSTS, CITADEL and LABYRINTH.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...

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...

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.