Kate Mosse

1891. Seventeen-year-old Léonie 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, Léonie 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...

Sepulchre

Sarah Escorsa

A surprisingly quick read, despite the thickness of the book! Sepulchre is quite entertaining and I actually enjoyed it a lot more than Mosse's first book, Labyrinth. That said, the plot is a bit clumsy sometimes and the present-day heroine is not a very interesting character. One more thing: there are so many mistakes in the French text that I'm wondering if anyone actually copy-edited the book (if they did, their French is obviously very poor!). There are also quite a few clichés about life in France, which was annoying at times (I haven't seen anyone smoke a Gauloise in the past 20 years but I guess it adds to the French "ambiance" of the book!). Still, this was an entertaining read.

Sepulchre

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