Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5162 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-31
• Released on: 2007-10-31
• Binding: Hardcover
• 560 pages

SAGA
'sexy, modern adventure.'

Review
'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 )

'Gripping' (HEAT )

'ghosts, duels, murders, ill-fated love and conspiracy...addictively readable' (Eithne Farry DAILY MAIL )

'undeniably gripping' (THELONDONPAPER )

'Try this if you enjoyed The Da Vinci Code but fancy something a bit more meaty.' (NEWS OF THE WORLD )

'Better than Labyrinth!' (SIMON MAYO BOOK CLUB ON RADIO 5 LIVE )

'A sure, deft momentum...the secrets begin to slip out thick and fast' (DAILY EXPRESS )

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

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

'[Mosse is] a powerful storyteller with an abundant imagination'. (Artemis Cooper DAILY TELEGRAPH )

'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 )

'no doubt many readers are eagerly awaiting the the pleasures of her next novel.' (THE GUARDIAN )

'an enjoyable romp' (MAIL ON SUNDAY )

'sexy, modern adventure.' (SAGA )

Emma Hagestadt, INDEPENDENT
'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.'

Customer Reviews

Couldn't even finish it.
I'm a wide reader and read from the classics to what his deemed as "trashy reading" however no matter what I am reading I have never been unable to finish a book before.
I loved Labyrinth and it is rated as one of my favourite books so I bought this book eagerly however,I found it impossible to get in to,the americanisms annoyed me,I didn't feel anything for the characters and in general I just disliked the book.It is a shame as its plot is so deceivingly interesting.

A bit too supernatural for my taste
The story of two lives that are intertwined:

Leonie Vernier is a Parisian teenager who travels with her brother to a country house in the French Pyrenees in 1891. She does not realize that her brother and her aunt share a secret and that her brother is on the run for a man so evil that nobody dares to stand up against him.

Meredith Martin is an American who writes a biography of Claude Debussy. Her trip to Eurote brings her to the French Pyrenees where she hopes to find an answer to questions about her family.

Crucial roles in the book are played by a set of Tarot cards, a ruined Visigoth sepulchre and unconditional love.

Even though the book gives a nice description of upper-class French day-to-day live at the end of the 19th century and makes fun of the stories in the Da Vinci code and some other books that all hype up the region of Carcasonne for hidden treasures and connections to biblical figures, there is a lot of supernatural mumbo-jumbo in this book. It was an anjoyable book for a holiday, but not one that I will remember for a long time.

don't be put off !!
this was easy a 5 star book i tried to find a little few faults but it was just being picky !! sepulchre was one of them books that takes your imagination to somewhere else the characters were so real and the setting of the de la cade was so good i was gutted to find out it didn't exist ! i miss it already just read it !