Sepulchre

Past, present, revenge, murder, betrayal, doomed love and tarot cards. It’s all here among the drab of old Paris and the wild beautiful countryside of Southern France.

The story spans 2007 where Meredith Martin an American researching the mercurial composer Claude Debussy in Paris gradually uncovers the legacy of his upstairs neighbour Leonie Vernier a 19th Century Parisienne who arrives at the Domaine de la Cade an estate belonging to her widowed aunt after a headlong flight from Paris. As the plot seesaws between time-periods Meredith travels to the village of Rennes-les-Bains, her luxury hotel, Domaine de la Cade. According to local superstitions a place where devils run free. It is said that the ruined Sepulchre in the grounds is a door between worlds and that a deck of Tarot cards hidden somewhere on the property is the key. The spirit of Leonie wants Meredith to find the cards and bring her justice, but Meredith isn’t the only one who is looking. I much preferred this to Labyrinth Mosse's first book.