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If you liked The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, try the following books
that are similar in style or story.

The Amber Room by Steve Berry                             [LP/F/BER][F/BER]
   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.

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown [CAS/F/BRO][CD/F/BRO][F/BRO]
   After the murder of a world-renowned physicist, Harvard symbologist
   Robert Langdon learns an ancient secret society called the Illuminati,
   which stands for science and has opposed the Catholic Church since the
   1500’s, is responsible. When Langdon realizes the Illuminati may attempt
   to defeat the church by destroying Vatican City, he and scientist Vittoria
   Vetra are the world’s only hope.

The sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick                          [F/BRO]
   A suspected Nazi war criminal seeks sanctuary in a French monastery. A
   woman who was once a member of a secret group who smuggled Jewish
   children to safety is now dying. How are these two people related, and
   why has the Vatican ordered Father Anselm to investigate?

The Genesis Code by John Case                                        [F/CAS]
   A phone call in the dead of night brings Joe Lassiter shattering news. His
   sister and young nephew have died in a fire in their home near Washington,
   D.C. Yet Lassiter soon learns a chilling fact: His loved ones were
   murdered before the blaze was set. Then Lassiter uncovers another
   crime—another innocent mother and child murdered. The more he
   uncovers, the larger the web of conspiracy grows, as his search for answers
   leads him on a dangerous international chase toward a truth that will shock
   him—and the world—to the very bone.




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A Finer End by Deborah Crombie                      [LP/M/CRO] [M/CRO]
   A tale of mysteries—one old, one modern. Worker Jack Montford’s office
   overlooks a mysterious castle and graveyard. He begins hearing cries of
   help from a monk who died 1,000 years ago. He appeals to Scotland Yard
   for help, and unleashes a fatal chain of events.


Kissed a Sad Goodbye by Deborah Crombie                             [M/CRO]
    A young woman’s body has been found in the tall grass of East London’s
    Mudchute Park, her jacket and short skirt carefully arranged to preserve her
    modesty. The victim was a mystery even to those who knew her best.

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco                                   [F/ECO]
   In seven days of apocalyptic terror, a killer strikes seven times—and seven
   monks die. The year is 1327. The place is a wealthy abbey in Italy. The
   crimes committed there are beyond the wildest imaginings. It will be the
   task of English Brother William of Baskerville to decipher secret symbols
   and dig into the eerie labyrinth of abbey life to solve the mystery.

Foucalt’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco                                            *
      (See above “The Name of the Rose”)

Headlong by Michael Frayn                                          [F/FRA]
   Frayn combines the wit of Calvin Trillin with the wisdom of John Updike
   in this hilarious novel about an unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and
   sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master.

The Assassini by Thomas Gifford                                         [F/GIF]
   International thriller about a secret society of killers operating within the
   dark heart of the Catholic Church. Gifford spent more than five years
   researching this well-written, fast-paced novel involving the inner workings
   of the Vatican.

Enigma by Robert Harris                               [DVD/ENI][F/HAR]
   During World War II, a troubled mathematical genius is called upon to help
   decipher the German’s sophisticated code, Enigma. Somewhere lurks a
   spy who is tipping off the enemy.

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The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga                             [F/HEL]
   “Mud angels” is what the Italians call the selfless young foreigners who
   come to Florence in 1966 to save the city’s priceless art from the Arno’s
   flooded riverbanks. Margot Harrington is an American volunteer, an
   expert at book conservancy. While struggling to save a waterlogged
   convent library, she discovers a fabulous volume of sixteen erotic drawings
   by Giulio Romano that accompany sixteen steam sonnets by Pietro Aretino.

Belladonna at Belstone by Michael Jecks               *
    1321. Lady Elizabeth of Topsham, prioress of St. Mary’s, is fighting to
    retain her position in the face of devastating opposition. She has been
    accused by Sister Margherita, St. Mary’s treasurer, of giving much-needed
    funds to the new vicar, a man she often sees alone at night. Many of the
    nuns are convinced that Margherita would make a better prioress especially
    now that it is certain that Moll, a young nun, was murdered in her sick bed.
    Sir Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King’s Peace, together with his old
    friend Simon Puttock, are summoned to investigate.

Unbound by Julie Wallin Kaewert                    *
   England’s prestigious Plumtree Press is about to release a shocking book
   that exposes coded messages in a famous novel—codes alleged to be
   printer’s errors. The messages are so treacherous, that if discovered at the
   original time of publication, the author would have been hung for treason.
   Now, with someone ruthlessly trying to keep this revealing expose out of
   stores, Alex Plumtree must protect his star author and family’s legacy
   before the phrase "publish or perish” becomes all too real.

The Last Day by Glenn Kleier                                        [F/KLE]
   New Year’s Eve, 1999: As the clock ticks toward the new millennium, the
   planet is suddenly rocked by a geological event of staggering proportions—
   followed by reports of the appearance of a woman with extraordinary
   supernatural powers.

The Gemini Contenders by Robert Ludlum                 [LP/F/LUD] [F/LUD]
   A clandestine order of monks desperately hides a mysterious vault high in
   the Italian Alps to save it from the Nazis. The manuscripts inside
   concealed for centuries could destroy the Christian world.

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The Icarus Agenda by Robert Ludlum                      [LP/F/LUD] [F/LUD]
      A murderous band of terrorist fanatics has seized the American embassy
      in the Arab city of Musgat, but an American congressman, working
      undercover, succeeds in lifting the deadly siege.

The Eight by Katherine Neville                    *
   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.

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears              [LP/F/PEA][F/PEA]
   In the 1660s, as Charles II and the Church of England try to quell residual
   opposition, Robert Grove, fellow of New College, is murdered and four
   different people give their versions of the incident.

Giotto’s Hand by Iain Pears                                       [LP/M/PEA]
   The author of the best-selling historical novel, “An Instance of the
   Fingerpost”, pens this intriguing mystery about an English art dealer on the
   trail of a criminal mastermind responsible for a series of major heists.

Daughter of God: A Novel of Art and
Faith When God Was a Woman by Lewis Perdue                          [F/PER]
   In the present, Zoe Ridgeway, an art broker, visits Switzerland with her
   husband, Seth, where she expects to purchase the estate of a German art
   collector. But before Zoe can complete the transaction, she and Seth are
   drawn into a thousand-year-old web of conspiracy, murder, and intrigue
   that begins and ends with a mystery of Sophia—a reputed female
   messiah—and all the powerful forces who seek to protect their patriarchies
   from a divinely feminine truth.




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The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte                           [M/PER]
   An art restoration expert discovers a strange inscription beneath layers of
   paint on a 15th century Flemish painting depicting a chess game. As she
   searches for an answer to the riddle of the painting, she uncovers a
   dangerous contemporary mystery.

Story of B by Daniel Quinn                                             [F/QUI]
    Furthering the intellectual and environmental message first proffered in the
    award-winning book, Ishmael, The Story of B tells the story of Jared
    Osborne, a priest sent on a mission to investigate an inerrant preacher
    whose radical speeches are attracting a growing number of followers.

The Book of Q by Jonathan Rabb                                         [F/RAB]
   Thriller about a conflicted priest and his race to prevent a secret
   brotherhood from destroying the Catholic Church.

The Overseer by Jonathan Rabb                                       [F/RAB]
   It has long been rumored in academic circles that a sixteenth century monk
   named Eisenreich took Machiavelli several steps further, writing a
   masterplan for world domination so dangerous the Pope had him killed to
   suppress it.

The Confessor by Daniel Silva         [F/SIL] [Book on CD/F/SIL][LP/F/SIL]
   As writer Benjamin Stern enters his Munich flat, he is shot dead. In
   Venice, art restorer Gabriel Allon is told of Stern’s death. At the Vatican, a
   priest named Pietro thinks about the journey before him, in which men will
   surely die. In the weeks to come, the lives of these three men will intersect
   on a trail of long-buried secrets and unthinkable deeds.

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson                                    [F/STE]
   The descendent of a World War II code breaker tries to track down the
   secrets of the Third Reich’s cryptographers-secrets that may liberate or ruin
   the cybertech world of the present day. He uncovers evidence of a long-
   dormant, top-secret conspiracy.




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The Prophetess by Barbara Wood                                         [F/WOO]
   In December 1999, Catherine Alexander discovers six ancient papyrus
   scrolls that reveal a hidden history of the world and its religions, but a
   seventh scroll, containing unimaginable power, is missing and Catherine
   must dodge government agents, Vatican operatives, and more to locate it.




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*=Not in Lansing Public Library collection. Check with Refere nce for
 availability through Inter-Library Loan.

                                     F=Fiction
                                    M=Mystery
                                  LP=Large Print
                                CAS=Book on Cassette
                                   NB=New Book




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