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The Last Cato: A Novel by Matilde Asensi
Sister Ottavia Salina, a Vatican archivist, along with an archaeologist and a captain in the Swiss Guard, investigates international relic thefts, faces tests based on the seven deadly sins, and searches for the True Cross. |
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The Amber Room by Steve Berry
When her father dies under suspicious circumstances, Rachel Cutler finds everything she loves threatened by the rival quests of two art collectors who seek one of the world’s greatest treasures, lost after the Second World War. |
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The Templar Legacy: A Novel by Steve Berry
Cotton Malone, a former covert U.S. Justice Department operative, and his ex-supervisor Stephanie Nelle, follow a labyrinthine trail of danger, treachery, high-level intrigue, and overwhelming ambition across Europe on a quest that leads them to the enigmatic secrets of the Knights Templar. |
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The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell
Trying to decipher an ancient text that weaves a mathematical labyrinth within a love story, two researchers 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. |
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Daughter of God by Lewis Perdue
Evidence of a female messiah executed by the Church in the fourth century has been stolen from its safe hiding place in the Vatican, and now all hell is breaking loose in the modern world as a result. |
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The Secret Supper: A Novel by Javier Sierra
Sent to oversee the completion of Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper,” Dominican inquisitor Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the artist’s omission of key elements and use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that there is a coded message in the painting. |
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The Confessor by Daniel Silva
In the wake of a Munich writer’s assassination, a Mossad agent and a Vatican priest embark on dangerous journeys that reveal long-buried secrets affecting the fates of millions of people. |
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The School of Night by Alan Wall
Sean Tallow desperately tries to solve the riddle surrounding School of Night, an enigmatic group of Elizabethans who clustered around Sir Walter Raleigh. |
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Brethren: An Epic Adventure of the Knights Templar by Robyn Young
After joining the Order of the Knights Templar, Will Campbell is assigned to recover a heretical text stolen from the group’s vaults, unaware that the book hides clues to a plot by secret group within the order. |
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The Expected One: A Novel by Kathleen McGowan
After joining the Order of the Knights Templar, Will Campbell is assigned to recover a heretical text stolen from the group’s vaults, unaware that the book hides clues to a plot by secret group within the order. |
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Resurrection by Tucker Malarkey
Gemma Bastian, the daughter of a renowned late archaeologist, raises troubling questions about her father’s death, which occurred during his attempt to recover and make public the lost Gnostic Gospels. |
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Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, becomes a target after discovering a pair of crumbling skeletons in the Pyrenees mountains, while eight hundred years in the past, Alaèis, the daughter of a crusader, must safeguard the location of the Holy Grail. |
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The Book of Q: A Novel by Jonathan Rabb
A modern-day priest uncovers a sixth-century conspiracy that threatens to re-awaken in the present, and his investigation carries him to Croatia where he will confront the consequences of an eight-year-old affair. |
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The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
As Lucas Corso investigates the authenticity of a manuscript by Alexander Dumas — received from a man later found hanged — he becomes embroiled in a search for a rare book of satanic lore, pursued by a sinister stalker and a mysterious woman. |
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The Eighth Day by John Case
Private investigator Danny Cray is hired to discover who is behind a clever scheme to destroy the reputation of a notorious billionaire — an assignment that takes him around the world and unexpectedly hurls him into a sinister world where nothing is what it seems. |
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Headlong: A Novel by Michael Frayn
When a frustrated philosopher uncovers what he believes is a lost painting by Bruegel in a boorish neighbor’s basement, he embarks on a quest to separate the work from its owner. |
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Mary, Called Magdalene by Margaret George
Draws on the Bible and secular historical research to present a fictional portrait of Mary Magdalene as she becomes part of Jesus’s disciple circle and comes into a realization of her faith. |
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Codex by Lev Grossman
An investment banker is sent by his firm to organize a collection of rare books for a mysterious, important client and realizes that there may be a medieval codex hidden among the volumes that surprisingly parallels a computer game’s addictive virtual reality world. |
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The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury
When the opening gala of a Vatican exhibit attended by archaeologist Tess Chaykin is stormed by four horsemen dressed as Templar Knights who steal an artifact, FBI anti-terrorist specialist Sean Reilly and Tess team up for an investigation. |
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In the Hand of Dante: A Novel by Nick Tosches
The discovery of an original manuscript of Dante’s “Inferno” in the Vatican archives finds writer Nick Tosches heading for Rome to authenticate the find. |