Labyrinth

A mystical quest for the Grail serves as the focus of this polished and suspenseful literary thriller. Alice Tanner, a volunteer on an archaeological dig high in the Pyrenees, inadvertently unblocks the entrance to a mountain cave, where she finds two skeletons, one of which bears a stone ring carved with a labyrinth pattern. The discovery awakens a mysterious connection between Alice and the similarly-named Alais, a 13th-century young Frenchwoman guarding a book holding encrypted information about the Grail. Just as Alais must keep the book safe from the Crusaders besieging her town of Carcassone, the present-day Alice must also keep the Grail secrets from falling into the wrong hands.