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Best books to read after Labyrinth by Kate Mosse

Kate Mosse's Labyrinth is the dual-timeline thriller about the Cathar Crusade and the secret of the Holy Grail. These recommendations continue the Mosse canon, explore the historical thriller tradition, or offer companion reading in the tradition of the novel that uses the medieval and the modern to illuminate each other.

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    Sepulchre

    by Kate Mosse

    The companion Mosse novel — 1891 Carcassonne and 2007 Paris, connected by tarot cards and the Languedoc landscape; the second book in the Languedoc Trilogy and the natural continuation after Labyrinth.

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  2. 2

    Citadel

    by Kate Mosse

    The final Mosse Languedoc novel — Carcassonne under German occupation in 1942-1944, completing the trilogy with the same landscape and thematic concerns as Labyrinth.

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    The Da Vinci Code

    by Dan Brown

    The most popular companion in the tradition of the thriller organized around a secret society and a suppressed religious truth — Robert Langdon in Paris and London tracing the Priory of Sion, the novel that opened the market for the kind of Grail-secret thriller Labyrinth occupies.

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  4. 4

    The Name of the Rose

    by Umberto Eco

    The literary medieval mystery companion — William of Baskerville investigating murders in a fourteenth-century monastery, Eco's erudite and atmospheric novel sharing Labyrinth's commitment to the texture of medieval religious life.

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    The Historian

    by Elizabeth Kostova

    The European historical mystery companion — a young woman tracing Dracula's living legacy across European archives, Kostova's atmospheric novel sharing Labyrinth's structure of a contemporary protagonist pursuing a medieval mystery through present-day Europe.

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    People of the Book

    by Geraldine Brooks

    The multi-century historical companion — a conservator tracing the Sarajevo Haggadah across five centuries, Brooks sharing Labyrinth's conviction that what happens in medieval Europe still matters and still echoes in the present.

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    Pillars of the Earth

    by Ken Follett

    The epic medieval England companion — the building of a cathedral across generations, Follett's comprehensive historical novel sharing Labyrinth's interest in medieval religious conflict and the specific texture of life in the medieval Christian world.

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    The Shadow of the Wind

    by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

    The Spanish literary companion — Daniel Sempere in post-war Barcelona and the mystery of the author whose books are being destroyed, Zafón sharing Labyrinth's sense of a Spain haunted by its medieval and twentieth-century history.

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