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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Books featuring codes, religion, the art world, conspiracies, fast moving action, historical or scientific details, biblical tie-ins …

Steve Berry The Templar Legacy
The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it was - and its true nature could change the modern world. Cotton Malone, onetime top operative for the U.S. Justice Department, now an antiquarian book dealer in Copenhagen, is plunged into an ancient conspiracy.
Michael Byrnes The sacred bones
In Italy, American forensic scientist Charlotte Hennesey has been hired by the Vatican to examine the contents of a newly discovered archeological treasure: a two-thousand-year-old ossuary containing the bones of an unidentified, crucified man - the first complete skeleton of a crucifixion victim ever found. Together with Italian anthropologist Giovanni Bersei, Charlotte makes startling forensic and genetic discoveries that lead her to wonder - could these be the bones of Jesus Christ? With the situation in Jerusalem veering out of control and the malevolent eye of Vatican security expert Salvatore Conte watching her every step, Charlotte puts two and two together.
Ian Rule of Four - coverCaldwell & Dustin Thomason The Rule of Four
As two Princeton roommates come closer and closer to solving the puzzles behind the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a mysterious 15th century manuscript, they realize their life may be in danger from someone who will do anything to protect the secrets.
Ross King Ex-Libris
A cryptic summons to a remote country house launches a London bookseller on an odyssey through 17th-century Europe. Given the task of restoring a magnificent library that has been pillaged during the English Civil War, Isaac Inchbold finds himself slipping from the surface of 1660s London into an underworld of spies, smugglers, ciphers, and forgeries.
Daniel Silva Confessor
An academic, working on an exposé about the Vatican's collaboration with the Nazis, has been assassinated. Mossad agent Gabriel Allon suspects that the gunman was working for a secret Vatican society known as Crux Vera, and he embarks on a dangerous journey that reveals long-buried secrets.

Fans of Brown’s mix of thriller, suspense and adventure, along with numerous details of deadly secrets, might try…

John Case
Eighth Day - CoverLike Brown, Case blends conspiracies involving science, religion, and more in his fast-paced thrillers which star an everyman caught in a dangerous situation from which he must save himself and often others. Try in particular The Eighth Day or The Genesis Code.
Michael Crichton
Although Crichton's books lack the religious angle of Brown's Langdon series, they offer scientific fact and fiction, evil conspiracies, fast pacing, life-threatening predicaments - caused by human and natural enemies - and believable characters and situations that should please many of Brown's fans. Try Prey, his cautionary tale of nanotechnology gone wild.
Margaret George
Historical. Mary, Called Magdalene draws on the Bible and secular historical research to present a fictional portrait of Mary of Magdala as she becomes part of Jesus' circle of disciples and comes into a realization of her faith. presents a picture of the strong woman Brown also suggests in The Da Vinci Code.
Daniel Silva
Produces gripping tales of corruption and conspiracy, often involving worlds of both art and religion. His fast-paced, detail-laden thrillers may be darker in tone and delve more deeply into issues, than do Brown's, but readers looking for a more complex and stylish tale should certainly explore his novels.
Barbara Wood
Addresses another much discussed element from The Da Vinci Code: the role of women in the early church.

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