The Holy Place: Saunière and the Decoding of the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château

This is a very disappointing book. It does talk some about Rennes-le-Chateau, the church, the things that are in the church and the priest who went from being very poor to being very rich but, in that part at least, there's nothing I haven't read elsewhere.

The author talks about various clues left to whatever this treasure is/was but here's my problem with that. If Sauniere had found a treasure and used that to become rich then why would he leave clues to the treasure which he supposedly already found and used? Further, if there was any more treasure left then again why leave clues to it? Why let other people find something that he could still use? To me that just doesn't make any logical sense.

The main disappointment is how much of the book is devoted to the author's ideas that there are geometrical arrangements that are very important. Chapter after chapter is taken up with pentagons, straight line arrangements, miles, rods and a multitude of other things that might possibly be important to some major researcher into the topic but for the average reader it's all meaningless and takes up space that could have been taken up by background information on Sauniere, how people have searched for this treasure, what it could have been specifically and so on.

There are some appendices but they also deal mainly with the geometric possibilities.