Sepulchre - Rilegato

Mosse, Kate

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ISBN 10: 0752860550 ISBN 13: 9780752860558

Casa editrice: Orion, 2007

Riassunto

October 1891: A young girl, Léonie 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 a stunning novel from the bestselling author of LABYRINTH.

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Recensione:

SEPULCHRE is a compulsive, fantastical, historical yarn. Mosse's skill lies in the precise nature of her storytelling (OBSERVER)

Ghosts, duels, murders, ill-fated love and conspiracy ... addictively readable (DAILY MAIL)

[Mosse is] a powerful storyteller with an abundant imagination (DAILY TELEGRAPH)

Brilliantly absorbing ... Richly evocative and full of compelling twists and turns (RED)

Mosse's gifts for historical fiction are considerable ... Mosse does what good popular historical novelists do best - make the past enticingly otherworldly, while also claiming it as our own (INDEPENDENT)

The best of the Brits ... Where Mosse really wins is in the writing department. She's the real role model there (DAILY MIRROR)

Her narrative lyricism, beautifully drawn female characters and deft journey from the past to the present day, are also a cut above (SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY)

The Labyrinth author is back with another brilliantly absorbing story ... Richly evocative and full of compelling twists and turns. (RED)

The latest from the the author of best-selling Labyrinth, this adventure will keep you engrossed. (EVE)

Mosse's gifts for historical fiction are considerable ... Mosse does what good popular historical novelists do best - make the past enticingly otherworldly, while also claiming it as our own. (Emma Hagestadt INDEPENDENT)

Descrizione del libro:

A gripping tale of mystery and adventure from the author of LABYRINTH.

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• Editore: Orion
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0752860550
• ISBN 13: 9780752860558
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 560