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?

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.

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.

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.

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...

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 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

Octobre 1891 : la jeune Léonie Vernier et son frère Anatole quittent Paris pour le Domaine de la Cade, à quelques kilomètres de Carcassonne. Dans les bois qui entourent la maison isolée, Léonie tombe par hasard sur les vestiges d'un sépulcre wisigoth. Au fil de ses recherches, elle découvre l'existence d'un jeu de tarots dont on prétend qu'il détient les pouvoirs de vie et de mort. Octobre 2007 : Meredith Martin arpente les contreforts pyrénéens dans le but d'écrire une biographie de Claude Debussy. Mais elle mène aussi une enquête sur ses propres origines. Armée d'une partition pour piano et d'une vieille photographie, la voilà plongée malgré elle au coeur d'une tragédie remontant à plus d'un siècle, où le destin d'une jeune fille, disparue par une nuit funeste, se mêle inextricablement à une dramatique histoire d'amour.

Kate Mosse From the bestselling author of LABYRINTH and SEPULCHRE - a compelling story of ghosts and rememberance. With illustrations throughout by Brian Gallagher. 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. 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 and he stumbles into the woods. Emerging by a tiny village, he meets Fabrissa, a beautiful woman also mourning a lost generation. Over the course of one night, Fabrissa and Freddie share their stories. 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.

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.

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.

A journey through history of the women who built the world but whom the world forgot From No 1 bestselling author Kate Mosse

Mosse is a master storyteller Madeleine Miller bestselling author of Circe A sweeping story of love adventure and adversity The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse is an epic tale of courageous women battling to survive in a hostile land Olifantshoek Southern Africa 1688 When the violent Cape wind blows from the south east they say the voices of the unquiet dead can be heard whispering through the deserted valley Suzanne Joubert a Huguenot refugee from war torn France arrives in search of her cousin the notorious she captain and pirate commander Louise Reydon Joubert who landed at the Cape of Good Hope more than sixty years before then disappeared without a trace Franschhoek Southern Africa 1862 Nearly one hundred and eighty years after Suzanne s perilous journey another intrepid and courageous woman of the Joubert family Isabelle Lepard has journeyed to the small frontier town once known as Oliftantshoek in search of her long lost relations Intent on putting the women of her family back into the history books she quickly discovers that the crimes and tragedies still shadow the present And now Isabelle faces a race against time if she is to discover the truth and escape with her life Painstakingly researched and beautifully told The

I hear someone coming. It has happened before . . .Rooted in the elemental landscapes of Sussex, Brittany and the Languedoc, here are tales of ghosts and spirits seeking revenge, of grief-stricken women and haunted men coming to terms with their destiny.Atmospheric and unforgettable, The Mistletoe Bride is a collection of stories inspired by ghost stories, folk tales and legends, from one of our most captivating writers.'These eerie tales are perfect for stormy winter darkness' Daily Mail'A master of the short form' Stylist'A powerful storyteller with an abundant imagination' Daily Telegraph

The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water. It is known only as the Ghost Ship. For months, its captain - Louise Reydon-Joubert - and her courageous crew has hunted pirates to liberate those enslaved during the course of their merciless raids.But now the Ghost Ship is under attack its hull splintered, its sails tattered and burnt, and the crew at risk of capture. But the bravest among them are not who they seem. Louise is fleeing a miscarriage of justice; her lover, Gilles Barenton, is at risk of being exposed - she is forced to masquerade as her brother. The stakes could not be higher: if arrested, they will be hanged for their crimes. Can they survive the journey and escape their fate?A sweeping and epic queer love story, ranging from France in 1610 to Amsterdam and the Canary Islands in the 1620s, The Ghost Ship is a thrilling novel of adventure and buccaneering, love and revenge, stolen fortunes and hidden secrets on the High Seas. Most of all, it is a tale of defiant women in a man's world.

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 ...