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Kate Mosse

Kate Mosse is an author and broadcaster. The Co-Founder of the Orange Prize for Fiction (OPF) and the Orange Award for New Writers (OANW), she is also a former Executive Director of Chichester Festival Theatre. With her husband, author and teacher Greg Mosse, she teaches creative writing at West Dean College, West Sussex. She is a Trustee of Arts & Business and the South West Sussex Arts Group.

Awards: Nibbies (2006) see all

Genres: Historical, Historical Mystery, Mystery

New and upcoming books

September 2026

Autumn

November 2026

Sherlock

Series

Languedoc Trilogy
   1. Labyrinth (2005)
   2. Sepulchre (2007)
   3. Citadel (2010)

Joubert Family Chronicles
   1. The Burning Chambers (2018)
   2. The City of Tears (2020)
   3. The Ghost Ship (2023)
   4. The Map of Bones (2024)

Novels

   Eskimo Kissing (1996)
   Crucifix Lane (1998)
   The Winter Ghosts (2009)
   The Taxidermist's Daughter (2014)

Collections

   Great Escapes (2008) (with others)
   The Mistletoe Bride (2013)
   Marple (2022) (with others)
   Sherlock (2026) (with others)

Anthologies edited

I Am Heathcliff (2018)

Series contributed to

Quick Reads 2009
The Cave (2009)

Quick Reads 2022
The Black Mountain (2022)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Kate Mosse

This Is How We Come Back Stronger (2021)
Feminist Writers On Turning Crisis Into Change

Dear NHS (2020)
100 Stories to Say Thank You
edited by
Adam Kay

The Library Book (2012)

More books

Awards

2006 Richard and Judy Award : Labyrinth

Award nominations

	2025 HWA Gold Crown Award (longlist) : The Map of Bones
	2024 British Book Award Fiction Book of the Year (shortlist) : The Ghost Ship
	2006 Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award (nominee) : Labyrinth
	2005 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (shortlist) : Labyrinth

Kate Mosse recommends

The Ending Writes Itself (2026)
Evelyn Clarke
"Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None meets Yellowface, this is a quirky murder mystery full of quirky characters and satisfying twists. Great fun!"

A Particularly Nasty Case (2025)
Adam Kay
"Very funny, very rude and very moving - a wonderful read."

One Summer in Provence (2025)
Carol Drinkwater
"A novel that shines with all the colours and textures of Provence."

The Household (2024)
Stacey Halls
"Stacey Halls is a writer of great originality, great imagination and great sense of place. Atmospheric, intelligent, accessible, every novel is worth reading, then reading again and again."

The Four (2024)
Ellie Keel
"A dark, compelling and beguiling novel of revenge, guilt and love - Ellie Keel is a dazzling new voice."

Child of the Ruins (2023)
Kate Furnivall
"Hugely ambitious and atmospheric."

The Impossible Truths of Love (2021)
Hannah Beckerman
"This is a beautiful and heartbreaking novel about loss, family, and grief."

Magpie (2021)
Elizabeth Day
"Magnificent. Clever, beautifully-crafted, gripping, warm: I read it one sitting."

Bolt from the Blue (2021)
Jeremy Cooper
"Very moving, beautiful and so thoughtful too - a wonderful evocation of animals and birds, sky and Somerset."

A Theatre for Dreamers (2020)
Polly Samson
"A glorious novel."

The Guest List (2020)
Lucy Foley
"Both a classic whodunnit and a very contemporary psychological thriller that left me guessing right to the end – a wonderful read."

A Line of Forgotten Blood (2019)
(Saviors, book 2)
Malcolm Mackay
"A revelation, a real find for me."

The Stone Circle (2019)
(Ruth Galloway Mysteries, book 11)
Elly Griffiths
"One of the most engaging characters in modern crime fiction."

While You Sleep (2018)
Stephanie Merritt
"It has everything – intrigue, mystery and excellent history."

The Last Hours (2017)
(Last Hours, book 1)
Minette Walters
"Wonderful and sweeping…with a fabulous sense of place and history."

By Blood Divided (2017)
(Mistra Chronicles / Rise of Empires Chronicles, book 4)
James Heneage
"Wonderful history, adventure and a heart-breaking love story are brought thrillingly to life."

The Devils of Cardona (2016)
(Bernardo de Mendoza Mysteries, book 1)
Matthew Carr
"Full of engaging male and female characters, with a great sense of time and place. A treat."

The Secret Place (2014)
(Dublin Murder Squad, book 5)
Tana French
"A wonderfully tender and savage thriller about loyalty, teenage friendship and first loves. Gripping and ingenious."

The Steady Running of the Hour (2014)
Justin Go
"A wonderful time-slip story, beautifully written, emotionally engaging and ambitious. I loved it!"

The Madness of July (2014)
(Will Flemyng, book 1)
James Naughtie
"A hugely satisfying thriller that grips from the first page to the last."

The Key (2012)
(Sancti Trilogy , book 2)
Simon Toyne
"A fast moving, thoroughly enjoyable, adventure - plenty of action, plenty of intrigue and a wonderfully imaginative reinterpretation of a slice of religious history. The sort of novel to devour in one sitting"

The Holy Thief (2010)
(Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev, book 1)
William Ryan
"A subtle, superb mystery, a wonderful central character and a sense of place and period to rival even the greatest of Russian masters. More please!"

Heresy (2010)
(Giordano Bruno, book 1)
S J Parris
"It has everything - intrigue, mystery, and excellent history."

The Rapture (2009)
Liz Jensen
"Part literary ecological disaster, part critique about the dangers of evangelical religion, this is a pace imaginative novel, full of twists and turns, that deserves to be read in one sitting."

The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life (2009)
(All the Hopeful Lovers)
William Nicholson
"Utterly captures the sense of quiet desperation of ordinary lives . . . and the ways in which life turns on a sixpence."

One Day (2008)
David Nicholls
"I really loved it . . . it's absolutely wonderful . . . just so moving and engaging."

Rules of Deception (2008)
(Jonathan Ransom, book 1)
Christopher Reich
"Fast-paced and intriguing, RULES OF DECEPTION is a great international thriller full of twists and turns that kept me guessing to the very end. A very enjoyable read."

Sashenka (2008)
(Moscow Trilogy, book 1)
Simon Sebag Montefiore
"Gripping from start to finish with a wonderful heroine. The perfect mix of sweeping history and page-turning storytelling."

The Dark Volume (2008)
(Miss Temple, Doctor Svenson, and Cardinal Chang, book 2)
Gordon Dahlquist
"Fantastic... I was in seventh heaven."

The Snake Stone (2007)
(Yashim the Ottoman Detective, book 2)
Jason Goodwin
"Everything you could want from a novel - a cracking story, beautifully written, with a wonderfully seductive and original detective in the figure of Yashim the Eunuch."

Night Falls On The City (1967)
(Night Falls on the City, book 1)
Sarah Gainham
"A rare novel of beauty and scope and ambition ... without doubt Gainham's masterpiece."

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