The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse

The stunning conclusion to The Joubert Family Chronicles has arrived.

‘Mosse is a master storyteller’ – Madeleine Miller, bestselling authorof Circe

Their journey is over. But their story has just begun. A sweeping and epicstory of adventure and courage, injustice and triumph, The Map of Bones by KateMosse is the sequel to the number one bestselling The Ghost Ship.

Olifantshoek, Southern Africa, 1688. When the violent Cape wind blows fromthe south-east, they say the voices of the unquiet dead can be heard whisperingthrough the deserted valley. Suzanne Joubert, a Huguenot refugee from war-tornFrance, is here to walk in her cousin's footsteps. Louise Reydon-Joubert, thenotorious she-captain and pirate commander, landed at the Cape of Good Hope morethan sixty years ago, then disappeared from the record as if she had neverexisted. Suzanne has come to find her – to lay the stories to rest. But allis not as it seems . . .

Franschhoek, Southern Africa, 1862. Nearly one hundred and eighty yearsafter Suzanne's perilous journey, another intrepid and courageous woman of theJoubert family – Isabelle Lepard – has journeyed to the small frontiertown once known as Oliftantshoek in search of her long-lost relations.A journalist and travel writer, intent on putting the women of her family backinto the history books, she quickly discovers that the tragedies and crimes ofthe past are far from over. Isabelle faces a race against time if she is notonly going to discover the truth but escape with her life . . .

Painstakingly researched and beautifully told, The Map of Bones is thefourth – and final – novel of The Joubert Family Chronicles, following thebestselling The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears and The Ghost Ship.

Praise for The Joubert Family Chronicles:

‘Historical fiction to devour’ – Anthony Horowitz, bestselling authorof The Twist of the Knife, on The Burning Chambers

‘An utterly absorbing epic’ – Lucy Foley, bestselling author of TheParis Apartment, on The City of Tears

‘Meticulously researched and stunningly written’ – Santa Montefiore,bestselling author of Wait for Me, on The Ghost Ship

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