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Perhaps you liked the thorough research and fast pace of The Da Vinci Code or maybe you were compelled by the book's religion, art history, or cryptography aspects. Here are some suggestions for your next great read.
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Asensi, Matilde The Last Cato Holy relics are disappearing from sacred spots around the world -- and the Vatican will do whatever it takes to stop thieves from their incredible goal; to steal what is left of the scattered and miniscule splinters of the True Cross the Catholic Church has in its possession. 2006 Appears on the following book lists:
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Baigent, Michael Holy Blood, Holy Grail Part thriller, part mystery, part history. Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, and Richard Leigh, authors of The Messianic Legacy, spent over 10 years on their own kind of quest for the Holy Grail, into the secretive history of early France. Their tenacity and thorough research found a tangled and intricate story of politics and faith, and a story that might lead you to understand the lineage of Jesus Christ in an entirely new way. Best of all, it's written like a modern day thriller! 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Berry, Steve The Third Secret Haunted by the secrets revealed in 1917 in Fatima, Portugal, the obsession of Pope Clement XV leads to behind the scenes intrigue at the Vatican as Alberto Cardinal Valendrea, the Vatican's powerful Secretary of State, plots to bring down the troubled pontiff, while Father Colin Michener, the pope's secretary, investigates the murder of a Romanian priest connected to the secrets. 2005 Appears on the following book lists:
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Bondurant, Matt The Third Translation When Walter Rothschild, an American Egyptologist, is entrusted by the British Museum with the task of deciphering the real-life mystery of the Stela of Paser, an ancient funerary stone, he finds himself stepping into a world of conspiracy, cults, and danger. 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brown, Dan Angels & Demons In this "prequel" to the Da Vinci Code, world renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to investigate the bizarre murder of a brilliant physicist and the disappearance of his final discovery--antimatter. He discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati. Together with the physicist's daughter, Langdon begins a frantic race to stop the powerful brotherhood from destroying the Catholic Church and quite possibilty civilization as we know it. 2000 Appears on the following book lists:
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Caldwell, Ian The Rule of Four Endeavoring to decipher a five-hundred-year old text that weaves a mathematical labyrinth within a love story, researchers Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris obtain a diary that may contain the key to the code, but when a fellow researcher is killed, they realize that the book contains a dangerous secret. 2004 Appears on the following book lists:  Literary Thrillers
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Case, John The Genesis Code Prompted by the murder of his sister and her son, American Detective Joe Lassiter investigates the worldwide killing of children believed to be carrying the genes of Catholic saints. Spiced with intriguing facts about the information age, this fast-paced and complex puzzle of conspiracy and murder leads Joe to Rome and rural Italy, Washington, D.C, and a remote island off the coast of Maine. 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Eco, Umberto The Name of the Rose The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon - all sharpened to a glistening edge by wry humor and a ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey, where "the most interesting things happen at night". 1983 Appears on the following book lists:
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Folsom, Allan Day of Confession Hollywood lawyer Harry Addison investigates the assassination of a cardinal in Rome to prove his brother, a priest, did not do it. In the process, he discovers a Vatican plot to convert China and restore the Holy Roman Empire. The discovery makes Addison a marked man. 1998 Appears on the following book lists:
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Grossman, Lev Codex An investment banker is sent by his firm to organize a collection of rare books for a mysterious client and realizes that there may be a medieval codex hidden among the volumes that parallels a computer game's addictive virtual reality world. 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hewson, David The Sacred Cut When Detective Nic Costa arrives to investigate the killing of a woman whose body is found on the floor of the Pantheon, her body brutally carved, he is caught in the middle of an ambush that costs him his only witness and follows a deadly trail that leads to more gruesome murders, high-level government intrigue, a woman's search for the truth, a shocking conspiracy, and a madman. 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Khoury, Raymond The Last Templar When a Vatican exhibit attended by archaeologist Tess Chaykin is stormed by four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights who steal a particular artifact, FBI anti-terrorist specialist Sean Reilly teams up with Tess for an investigation that takes them through three continents. 2006 Appears on the following book lists:
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Kostova, Elizabeth The Historian Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigates the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler, a quest that takes her across Europe and into the pasts of her father and his mentor. 2005 Appears on the following book lists: Literary Thrillers Vampires | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kurzweil, Allen The Grand Complication Confronted by both professional and personal crises, reference librarian Alexander Short gains a new lease on life when he meets Henry James Jesson III, a collector who shares a number of Alexander's uncoventional interests and who hires him for some after-hours research into an enigmatic eighteenth-century inventor. 2001 Appears on the following book lists: Literary Thrillers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mawer, Simon The Gospel of Judas A priest commissioned to examine a controversial ancient scroll struggles with his own beliefs and conflicted vows while unraveling the secrets of the supposed "Gospel of Judas." 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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McGowan, Kathleen The Expected One When journalist Maureen Paschal begins to research her new book, she discovers that she is destined to play a key role in an epic international quest to gain control of a priceless series of scrolls, written in the first century by Mary Magdalene and hidden in the wilds of the French Pyrenees, that can only be uncovered by a special seeker known as the Expected One. 2006 Appears on the following book lists:
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Mosse, Kate Labyrinth Presents an adventure story of courage, destiny and betrayal, set in medieval and contemporary Carcassonne. A young girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. Inside the hidden tomb where the bones lie crumbling, she can somehow understand the mysterious ancient words carved into the rock. 2006 Appears on the following book lists: Fantasy: Contemporary
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Neville, Katherine The Eight When two young women in France of 1790 discover the Montglane Chess Service in Montglane Abbey, they recognize its mystic ability to provide anyone playing it with unlimited power and desperately scatter its pieces around the world. But in 1972, computer expert Catherine "Cat" Velis is hired to recover the chess pieces--and is caught up in a nefarious, globe-spanning conspiracy. 1997 Appears on the following book lists:
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Pamuk, Orhan My Name Is Red In 1590s Istanbul, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book, but any work of art--an affront to Islam--is dangerous. "My Name is Red" is a historical murder mystery played amidst the perils of religious repression, a love story, and a story of ideas. 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pears, Iain An Instance of the Fingerpost A meticulously researched novel on the way we interpret events to suit our purposes. The protagonists are four people giving evidence in a murder in 17th century England. One blames the crime on too much authority, another on the lack of it. Additionally, the novel looks deftly at the controversies of the day, from medical experiments to religious freethinking. 1998 Appears on the following book lists: Literary Thrillers |
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