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• Steve Berry's
The Templar Legacy
Former secret agent Cotton Malone and Stephanie Nelle, a prosecutor,
must solve the mystery of
fourteenth-century Templar
riches and secrets before Raymond de Roquefort and his murderous
allies prevail.
• Ann Benson's
The Burning Road
The more things change the more they
stay the same as a mysterious manuscript links
outbreaks of plague in the fourteenth and
twenty-first centuries.
• John
Case's
The Eighth Day
Private investigator Danny Cray is hired to discover who is
behind a scheme to destroy the
reputation of a notorious billionaire--an
assignment that unexpectedly hurls him into a sinister
world where nothing is
what it seems.
• Ian Caldwell's
The Rule of Four
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.
•
Aaron Elkins's
Loot
Retired curator Ben Revere dusts off his
professional skills to investigate murders linked to a
truckload of stolen paintings.
•
Thomas Gifford's
The Assassini
A grieving lawyer and a scholarly nun
join forces to uncover secret deeds committed by the
Catholic Church during World War II.
•
Glenn Kleier's
The Last Day
A woman who claims to be the Messiah
sparks the fury of the media, the Catholic Church, and
various world governments as they
search for evidence as to what and who she really is.
• Raymond
Khoury's
The Last Templar
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, anti-terrorist specialist
Sean
Reilly and Tess
investigate.
• Katherine
Neville's
The Eight
Set in 1972 and 1790...a mystery
surrounding a chess set missing for centuries containing
incredible
powers beyond belief. Contains major historical figures of the day,
from Robespierre to
Napoleon to Muhammar Khaddafi, each of whom has
his own agenda.
•
Iain Pears's
An Instance of the Fingerpost
Based on an actual murder case from the
1660s, Pears spins out a tale of political and religious
intrigue from the point of view of four
characters.
•
Lewis Perdue's
Daughter of God
Art broker Zoë Ridgeway discovers a
stolen religious relic that reveals a shocking Vatican secret.
•
Arturo Perez-Reverte's
The Flanders Panel
While restoring a painting, Julia
uncovers a cryptic inscription about chess that leads to a deadly
game of murder for her and her friends.
•
Jonathan Rabb's
The Book of Q
An ancient Manichean scroll endangers the
life--and the faith--of seminarian Ian Pearse. •
Lynn Sholes & Joe Moore's
The Grail Conspiracy
Cotten Stone
must unravel the mystery surrounding a claim that the holy grail has been
discovered in Iraq.
• Javier Sierra's
The Secret Supper
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. |
