The City of Tears: A Novel

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St. Martin's Publishing Group, Jan 19, 2021 - Fiction - 560 pages

Following #1 Sunday Times bestseller The Burning Chambers, New York Times bestseller Kate Mosse returns with The City of Tears, a sweeping historical epic about love in a time of war.

"Mosse is a master storyteller."—Madeline Miller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Circe

Alliances and Romance

August 1572: Minou Joubert and her husband Piet travel to Paris to attend a royal wedding which, after a decade of religious wars, is intended to finally bring peace between the Catholics and the Huguenots.

Loyalty and Deception

Also in Paris is their oldest enemy, Vidal, in pursuit of an ancient relic that will change the course of history.

Revenge and Persecution

Within days of the marriage, thousands will lie dead in the street, and Minou’s family will be scattered to the four winds . . .

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About the author (2021)

KATE MOSSE is a multiple New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author with sales of more than eight million copies in thirty-eight languages. Her previous novels include Labyrinth, Sepulchre, The Winter Ghosts, Citadel, The Taxidermist’s Daughter, and The Burning Chambers. Kate is the founder director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, a visiting professor at the University of Chichester, and in June 2013, was awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to literature. She divides her time between Chichester in the United Kingdom and Carcassonne in France.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe City of Tears: A Novel
Volume 2 of The Joubert Family Chronicles
AuthorKate Mosse
Editionreprint
PublisherSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2021
ISBN1250202183, 9781250202185
Length560 pages
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Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Thrillers / Historical
  
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