Sepulchre
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I RECEIVED THIS AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT AND GOT INTO IT STRAIGHT AWAY. KEPT ME ENGAGED ALL THE WAY THROUGH. GRIPPING, EERILY ATMOSPHERIC, AND DARKLY HAUNTING - A VERY GOOD READ.
"Set against the tumultuous backdrop of southern France, 'Sepulchre' is the stunning new novel of obession and revenge from the number one bestselling author of 'Labyrinth'.
October 1891: seventeen-year-old Leonie Vernier and her brother Anatole abandon the gas-lit streets of Paris for the sanctuary of the Domaine de la Cade, some miles south of the city of Carcassonne. But, in the woods that surround the isolated house, Leonie stumbles across a ruined Vivigoth sepulchre - and a mystery whose traces are written in blood. As she peels back the layers of the past, she uncovers the existence of a unique deck of tarot cards that are rumoured to hold the power of life and death.
October 2007: Reseaching a biography of the composer Claude Debussy in the apparent tranquillity of the Pyrenean foothills, Meredith Martin, also seeks the key to her own complex legacy. Armed with a haunting piece of piano music and a sepia photograph, she soon becomes immersed in the story of a tragic love, a missing girl, an unquiet soul, and the strange events of one cataclysmic night more than a century ago.
As the Feast of All Saints approaches - when the veil between life and death is at its thinnest - Meredith is drawn inexorably to a secluded forest glade where the secrets of the past are far from buried..."
"Set against the tumultuous backdrop of southern France, 'Sepulchre' is the stunning new novel of obession and revenge from the number one bestselling author of 'Labyrinth'.
October 1891: seventeen-year-old Leonie Vernier and her brother Anatole abandon the gas-lit streets of Paris for the sanctuary of the Domaine de la Cade, some miles south of the city of Carcassonne. But, in the woods that surround the isolated house, Leonie stumbles across a ruined Vivigoth sepulchre - and a mystery whose traces are written in blood. As she peels back the layers of the past, she uncovers the existence of a unique deck of tarot cards that are rumoured to hold the power of life and death.
October 2007: Reseaching a biography of the composer Claude Debussy in the apparent tranquillity of the Pyrenean foothills, Meredith Martin, also seeks the key to her own complex legacy. Armed with a haunting piece of piano music and a sepia photograph, she soon becomes immersed in the story of a tragic love, a missing girl, an unquiet soul, and the strange events of one cataclysmic night more than a century ago.
As the Feast of All Saints approaches - when the veil between life and death is at its thinnest - Meredith is drawn inexorably to a secluded forest glade where the secrets of the past are far from buried..."