October 1897: on the Eve of All Saint's, when graves are said to open and spirits walk, a young Parisian girl, Leonie Vernier, disappears without trace from her Aunt's country estate, the Domaine de la Cade, just outside the spa town of Rennes-les-Bains. That same night, in a tiny village across the valley, an elderly reclusive priest is brutally murdered. All that links the two events is the music heard echoing in the ancient woods and the painted Tarot card pressed between the bloodied fingers of the dead man's hand. ...
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October 1897: on the Eve of All Saint's, when graves are said to open and spirits walk, a young Parisian girl, Leonie Vernier, disappears without trace from her Aunt's country estate, the Domaine de la Cade, just outside the spa town of Rennes-les-Bains. That same night, in a tiny village across the valley, an elderly reclusive priest is brutally murdered. All that links the two events is the music heard echoing in the ancient woods and the painted Tarot card pressed between the bloodied fingers of the dead man's hand. Card XV, Le Diable - The Devil. The murderers are never brought to justice. Leonie's body is never found. October 2007: biographer and musician, Meredith Martin, arrives at the Domaine de la Cade, researching the composer, Claude Debussy. Immediately, she is captivated by the tragic history of the house and the fate of Leonie Vernier and her beloved brother Anatole. But when Meredith stumbles upon an ancient tomb, a sepulchre, hidden deep within the grounds, and hears ghostly music echoing through the woods at night, she realises the story of the cards is far from dead and buried. Against her will, she finds herself caught up in a race against time, both to find the Vernier Tarot and to solve the century-old mystery of Leonie's disappearance without becoming the latest victim herself.
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Add this copy of Sepulchre to cart. $16.99, very good condition, Sold by Brit Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Milton Keynes, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2007 by Orion.
Edition:
2007, Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Published:
11/29/2007
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18100466358
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Kate Mosse has not let me down in her writings of Labarynth and Sepulcre. They held me captive from page one to the end. Labarynth was the first book I read by her and Sepulcre was even better. I like the fact that she holds the reader in abeyance right up to the end of the book and that she doesn't skimp on what she's writing about. I used to like Balducci, Paterson,, T. Jefferson Parker and Joseph Wambaugh (to name a few) that are just pushing out novels with no thought to what they write. They have been very disappointing to me and my friends and we have boycotted them from our favorite authors. As I stated, Ms. Mosse is new to me and I hope she keeps up the excellent work and doesn't succumb to pushing out books just to keep readers buying them like the afore mentioned. I hope she takes her time and writes what is pleasing to her and her readers and not to the publishers. I rate her last two books as 10 out of 10 and am looking to find the three previous books she has written. Kudos
