In September 2014, Mosse published her gothic thriller The Taxidermist's Daughter, set in 1912 in Fishbourne and Chichester. in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter.

If you’re interested in reading about Cathars, highly recommend The Treasure of Montsegur: A Novel of the Cathars by Sophy Burnham. Grim tidings are, in my humble opinion, made grimmer by the gift (or curse) of hindsight and I am excited to see where the next novel, The City of Tears, goes from here. A masterly tour of history; a rapturous romance; and―best of all―a breathless thriller, alive with treachery, danger, atmosphere, and beauty.

The Burning Chambers is a refreshingly accessible and compulsively readable piece of historical fiction that marks the beginning of the Burning Chambers trilogy. As a fascinating and dangerous period, it effectively sets up the Catholic/Huguenot conflicts that are layered through the story, both in smaller character motivation and the larger social framework. It is filled with tension, romance, betrayal, and some relatively infrequent but nonetheless harrowing depictions of violence.

Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.

The prologue to The Burning Chambers features one of those descendants in that same graveyard in 1862. She has received an anonymous letter bearing an unknown crest and the cryptic message: “She knows that you live.

This novel has everything you could ever want in a novel of this genre and time period: struggles for power, religious strife, torture, old family secrets, characters of noble birth, mysteries, danger, betrayal, poison, inheritances, villains and heroes, romance, love, and murder! In 2006, she was nominated for a Quill Award and won the British Book Awards Best Read of the Year for Labyrinth.Eventually, the various story lines and leading characters converge on the place that holds the key to one element of the mystery before building to a dramatic climax.

HNS Awards have helped discover and launch the author careers of Michel Faber, Ruth Downie, Hilary Green, Martin Sutton, Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, Nikki Marmery, Margaret Skea, Warwick Cairns, Katherine Mezzacappa and Elizabeth Macneal. The second novel in The Burning Chambers series, The City of Tears - which is set in Paris, London and Amsterdam - will be published in May 2020.I have to say that I've been struggling with historical fiction lately, but Mosse's newest novel not only pulled me right out of that struggle but reminded me why I have passionately loved medieval history for as long as I can remember and minored in medieval history while in college! Mosse includes all the ingredients you would expect from a historical epic – murder, treachery, lost children, stolen relics, buried secrets – but she also dramatises the complexities of 16th-century French and Dutch politics without weighing it down. Bestselling author, Kate Mosse, talks about her new book, Sepulchre, and her fascination with tarot cards". She invented a new genre of fiction – sweeping historical stories that put women’s experiences firmly at their heart.