Mosse, Kate

After the last peal of the midnight bell fades on St. Mark's Eve--the time when it is said ghosts of those who will die in the next year can be seen--Connie Giffords, daughter of a disgraced taxidermist who once had a famous museum of taxidermy in their Blackthorn House, discovers the body of a stranger she had noticed alive near the church. In the following days, Connie gets strange glimpses into vanished years which reveal more about the mystery woman, whose death has affected Connie much more than is reasonable--unless she is someone more important to Blackthorn House than Connie has realized.

Traveling through the French Pyrenees to process the horrors of World War I, Freddie meets a lovely young woman also in mourning with whom he exchanges stories that unravel a centuries-old mystery.

Two women, separated by eight centuries, become caught up in the same mystery when volunteer archaeologist Alice Tanner, working in a cave near Carcassonne, stumbles upon two skeletons, and a stone ring engraved with a labyrinth which had been entrusted to Alais, the daughter of one of the appointed guardians of the Holy Grail, in 1209 on the eve of the invasion by French Crusaders.

Meredith Martin, an American graduate student, travels to France while researching the life of Claude Debussy, but she is haunted by a tarot reading in Paris and discovers an ominous deck of cards and a piece of music tied to a great fire from a century ago said to have been caused by the summoning of a demon.

Two women, separated by eight centuries, become caught up in the same mystery when volunteer archaeologist Alice Tanner, working in a cave near Carcassonne, stumbles upon two skeletons, and a stone ring engraved with a labyrinth which had been entrusted to Alais, the daughter of one of the appointed guardians of the Holy Grail, in 1209 on the eve of the invasion by French Crusaders.