From the Twin Falls Public Library Reference Department:
If You Liked The Da Vinci Code, You Might Like...

If you liked The Da Vinci Code, you might want to try some of these fast-paced thrillers. Some have religious themes, while others involve centuries-long conspiracies, but all are sure to give you an exciting armchair adventure.
The annotations are courtesy of Book Index with Review. Check out BIR, part of the TFPL databases, for more reviews.
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
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The murder of a world-famous physicist raises fears that the Illuminati are operating again after centuries of silence, and religion professor Robert Langdon is called in to assist with the case. |
Daughter of God by Lewis Purdue
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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. |
Map of Bones by James Rollins
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When several people are burned to death during the theft of a religious artifact, Gray Pierce, a new member of the U.S. SIGMA force, pursues a clandestine fraternity of alchemists who would use the artifact to establish a new world order. |
The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry
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Former secret agent Cotton Malone and Stephanie Nelle, a U.S. Justice Department prosecutor, must solve the mystery of fourteenth-century Templar riches and secrets before Raymond de Roquefort and his murderous allies prevail. |
The Eight by Katherine Neville
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About to embark on a business trip to Algeria, Catherine Velis meets a mysterious man who offers her an enormous sum of money if she will find the pieces of an old chess service reputed to be in Algeria. |
The Genesis Code by John Case
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Joe Lassiter takes a leave of absence from his high-tech investigation agency to search for the murderer of his only sister and her son. |
The Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
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In 2005, Alice Tanner stumbles into a hidden cave while on an archeological dig in southwest France. Her discovery—two skeletons and a labyrinth pattern engraved on the wall and on a ring—triggers visions of the past and propels her into a dangerous race against those who want the mystery of the cave for themselves. (Book Description courtesy of Publisher's Weekly.) |
Book of Q by Jonathan Rabb
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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. |
The Expected One by Kathleen McGowan
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Journalist Maureen Pascal discovers that she is destined to play a key role in an 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. |
The Prophetess by Barbara Wood
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In December 1999, archaeologist Catherine Alexander unearths six ancient papyrus scrolls that reveal secrets that the worlds' governments would give anything to possess, but the seventh scroll is missing and Catherine races against time--and Armageddon--to find the parchment. |
The Secret Supper by Javier Sierra
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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. |
The Last Cato by Matilde Asensi
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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. |
The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury
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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. |
The Thieves of Heaven by Richard Doetsch
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When master thief Michael St. Pierre steals two priceless antique keys--which supposedly protect the secret of salvation--from Vatican vaults, he unwittingly sets in motion a deadly plot that brings him face to face with an insidious enemy and sends him running for his life. |
Splintered Icon by Bill Napier
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Hired to appraise a four-hundred-year-old journal, supposedly by the cabin boy aboard Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition, antiquarian bookseller Harry Blake soon finds that the enigmatic volume is much more, when his client is murdered. |
The Sacred Cut by David Hewson
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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. |
The Testament by Eric Van Lustbader
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After his father's death in a mysterious explosion, Braverman "Bravo" Shaw discovers that the late Dexter Shaw had been a high-ranking member of the Order of Gnostic Observatines, a secret sect tasked with preserving an ancient cache of documents that could reshape all of Christianity and has become the target of the Knights of St. Clement, who will stop at nothing to obtain the treasure. |
The Magic Circle by Katherine Neville
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When her cousin is killed, Ariel Behn inherits a mysterious cache of manuscripts from the first century A.D. that, when deciphered, could give her the power to control the world. |
The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte
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When a young art expert discovers a murder hidden in a valuable fifteenth-century Flemish painting, she must overcome some unscrupulous twentieth-century characters to uncover the identity of the killer. |
