Sepulchre (Languedoc Trilogy, #2)

by Kate Mosse

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.

• ISBN10: 0399154671
• ISBN13: 9780399154676
• Publish Date: 1 April 2008 (first published 31 October 2007)
• Publish Status: Remaindered
• Out of Print: 27 August 2015
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: G. P. Putnam's Sons
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 572
• Language: English

Reviews

[Terri M. LeBlanc]

Overall a decent book. Once the main character got to the south of France, I was wishing I hadn't loaned my copy of Mosse's Labyrinth as I recall some of the characters appear in both books. This is a decent read and the tension in the book is really well done, but I was disappointed, as is usually the case when I read mystery novels, with the solution to the puzzle. I think once the Meredith gets to where she is going and meets the people she is suppose to meet, I think it is way too obvious as to the way everything shakes out. However, I love historical fiction and I like the way Mosse blends the past with the present. It what keeps me readying. She does the past very well, maybe her next novel should focus entirely in the past?

On a side note, I would like to see Mosse add a glossary to her books so I know if I'm translating the French in my head properly.