Issue No.26

bring it to life.
The City of Tears, the second of the four
novels in The Burning Chambers Series, will
be published 14 January 2021 and is
available for pre-order now. Kate Mosse
suggested that we recommend you preorder
from small and independent
bookshops to give them - and our high
streets - much needed support in these
challenging times.
The City of Tears summary: Minou Joubert
and her family are in Paris in August 1572
for the Royal Wedding, an alliance between
the Catholic Crown and the Huguenot King
of Navarre intended to bring peace to France
after a decade of religious wars. So too is
their oldest enemy, Vidal, still in pursuit of a
relic that will change the course of history.
But within days of the marriage, a massacre
will take place and thousands will lie dead in
the streets. Minou’s beloved family will be
scattered to the four winds...
A gripping, breath-taking novel of revenge,
persecution and love, what it means to lose a
child, the action sweeps from Puivert, Paris
and Chartres to the city of tears itself,
Amsterdam.
And that is the joy of historical research. It
brings a place to life so that people can see a
modern setting in a new light: for example, I
went to Le Tour Saint-Jacques de la
Boucherie in the 4th arrondisement where,
once, Christians congregated at the start of
their long pilgrimage down to Tours and
through France, across the Pyrenees to
Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain.
The church is long gone - destroyed during
the Revolution - but the tower itself
remains. As I stood there, in my head I could
hear the crunching of the shells underfoot -
pilgrims pinned scallop shells to their
clothing and bags as a sign of their faith -
many of which fell to the ground in the mass
of people. And for me, that's the thing that I
hope to give readers, a feeling for a place, to
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